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PALS New South 2
Social and Political Change
Term | Definition |
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Laws to keep segregation among black and white citizens. | Jim Crow laws |
Rules used to take away African Americans right to vote | disenfranchisement |
U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld segregation | Plessey v. Ferguson |
Events such as race riots, lynchings, the Leo Frank case | racial violence |
Founder and President of Tuskegee University | Booker T. Washington |
Atlanta University professor; believed African Americans should form organizations in the fight against discrimination and segregation. | W.E.B. DuBois |
President of Atlanta University; helped to create the NAACP; worked with his wife to better the lives of African Americans in Atlanta. | John Hope |
Atlanta businessman (barber and owner of Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company? | Alonzo Herndon |