Ep.3, Ep.4 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Ida B. Wells
1883-First AA to file a discrimination lawsuit (denied seat on railroad car)
Editor of Memphis Free Speech
Office was burned + ran out of town after she went on a written crusade after 3 of her friends were lynched.
Helped found the NAACP.
Opposed to Booker T. Washington.
WEB DuBois
First AA PHD Harvard
Sexist, elitist, arrogant,
Opposed Booker T. Washington
“ceaseless agitation”
Civil Rights Cases
SC rules that 14th amendment doesn’t defend. equality in public spaces
Voter suppression
- Literacy tests
- poll taxes
- understanding of US Con.
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute (vocational school)
Believed in industrial education
Good w whites
Plessy v. Ferguson
Octoroon denied seat
Miss. SC rules states can segregate public spaces
legitimizes “separate but equal”
Wilmington, NC Massacre
Majority black thriving NC
AA’s elected- whites drive AA’s out of office
“Nadir of Race Relations”
Time period when Congress had 7 Black men and 1 Senator (1875-1900)
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Women group memorializing the “lost cause”
- Promoted fake history in school
- Built confederate monuments
Revisionist history of slavery
Slavery is depicted in media as good
Jim Crow propoganda is spread
Minstrelsy & Blackface
Minstrelsy - Pop entertainment mocking AA’s with blackface
Characterized with exaggerated features, language, and actions
Jim Crow- The dumb one
Bert Williams
Wore blackface to mock racism
very successful, highest paid black actor
Power of the image
Douglass believed photos were a way to reclaim your image
WEB. DuBois curated image show at Paris exhibition to show black life + culture
WEB DuBois
First AA to earn PHD from Harvard
Sexist
Wrote “souls of black folk”
- double consciences
“we are in America but we are not a part of it”
“New Negroes for a New Century”
Role of music, art & performance
Ragtime and “coon songs” became basis of jazz, blues and rock
Niagara Movement
Niagara movement: organization of African Americans who opposed Booker T. Washington, pushed agitation, main focus on lynching
Pres. Woodrow Wilson
progressive thinker, white supremacist, segregated federal offices, showed Birth of a Nation at White House for the first ever film
“unreconstructed Southerner”
Talented Tenth
Theory (Du Bois) that 10% of AAs would be leaders
Springfield, Illinios
1908 - White mob riots after alleged rape
Creates NAACP
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
DuBois edited “the crisis”
