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Disfranchisement

Disfranchisement. Poll Taxes. Required every citizen to pay in order to vote Set literacy tests and educational qualifications To avoid omitting poor white voters, they enacted grandfather clauses. Grandfather Clauses.

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Disfranchisement

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  1. Disfranchisement

  2. Poll Taxes • Required every citizen to pay in order to vote • Set literacy tests and educational qualifications • To avoid omitting poor white voters, they enacted grandfather clauses

  3. Grandfather Clauses • Granted the right to vote to anyone whose grandfather could have voted prior to 1867 • Most salves grandfathers would have never had the right to vote in 1867

  4. How did the South Get Away with this? • Most still believed that blacks were inferior to whites and deserved to be treated as second class citizens • Best-selling book the day was The Clansman • D.W. Griffith made it into a hit film, The Birth of a Nation

  5. The Birth of a Nation

  6. The Birth of a Nation • From Kentucky • Guess where the film premiered????

  7. The White House • Special premiere and screening for President Woodrow Wilson • Book’s author was a former classmate

  8. Booker T. Washington

  9. Booker T. Washington • Born a slave • Founded the Tuskegee Institute • School for black students in rural Alabama

  10. Tuskegee Institute • Wanted students to learn a trade and workplace discipline • Thought through learning an industrial skill, blacks could gain self respect and economic independence

  11. Teachings • Thought Blacks should put up with segregation for the time being • Had to prove their economic worth to society first • Thought whites could help provides blacks with education and job training

  12. The Atlanta Compromise • Famous speech given by Washington where he states his views

  13. W.E.B. DuBois

  14. DuBois • Challenged Washington’s views of accommodation • First black man to receive a doctorate from Harvard University • Wrote The Souls of Black Folk

  15. The Souls of Black Folk • Attacked the Atlanta Compromise and Washington • Blacks should be given equal rights immediately

  16. Other Accomplishments • Co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  17. Common Ground? • Both had reservations (concerns) about allowing illiterate blacks to vote • Also believed that black success in the South was going to require some assistance from whites

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