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Disenfranchisement
1- Being denied the right to vote
2- Southern states made it difficult for African- American men to vote -
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Boutbon Triumvirate
1-Powerful democratic leaders which were Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, & John B. Gordon.
2-Their goals were to expand Georgia's economy and ties with industries in the North & maintain the tradition of white supremacy. -
Jim Crow Laws
1- Laws made by states and cities to segregate the blacks and whites
2- Buissnesses and public institutions were told to keep their black and white clientele seperated -
Alonzo Herndon
1- Born a slave and beacame a black buisnessman
2- Owned many barbershops and later bought a small insurance company and owned over 100 houses (for rentals) -
Henry Grady
1- Known as the "Voice of the South" because of the newspaper influence
2-Helped plan the International Cotton Exposition and brought investors from the north and creaed more jobs in the south -
Tom Watson
1- Elected to the General Assembely as a Democrat
2-Becam a Populist; elected to the U.S. House of Representatives -
Plessy vs. Feguson
1- Georgia/ ther southern states continued "seperat-but-equal" in all forms of daily life
2- The Supreme Court ruling gave the new "Black Codes" called Jim Crow Laws, a legal right to be enforced if violated by African Americans -
Booker T. Washington
1- Civil Rights Leader
2- College professor and president of Tuskegee Instituite (Alabama) -
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International Cotton Exposition
The Purpose was to:
- Show how cotton was made into a marketable product
- Show off the economic recovery of the south
- Bring northern investors to Georgia
- To highlight Georgia's Natural Resources -
W.E.B. Du Bois
1- Civil Rights Leader and Professor at Atlanta University
2- Wanted and pushed for integration of races. Wanted equal rights for all citizens immediatly and organized the Niagara Movement -
John and Lugenia Burns Hope
1- Believed that black people should have the ame quality programs as whites
2- Helped organize the boys and girls club in Atlanta -
1906 Atlanta Race Riot
1- Based on reports about African- Americans innapropriate interactions with white woman and alcohol abuse
2- Riots lasted 3 days; 18 African- Americans killed, 3 whites killed, hundreds injured -
Leo Frank
1- Jewish man found guilty for killing 13 year old Mary- Phagan
2- Got a sentence of life in prison -
Rebecca Latimer Felton
1-Independent democrat who was against the Bourbon Triumvirateand was also involved in the Womans Suffrage Movement
2-First woman in the U.S. Senate (for only one day) -
County Unit System
1- Canidates could win an election without a majority of the votes
2- Established by the McNeill Primary Act
