Last History Exam

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What impacts did convict leasing/ neo slavery have on the people and economy of south in the late 19th century? ESSAY POSSIBLE

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1. African Americans (and general laborers) were affected because they had lower wages and less bargaining power, no unions, no social advancement.
2. Business men could get cheap labor, with high profits. (explain)
3. African Americans were unofficially living in slavery, they lived in fear, neo slavery.
4. Law Enforcement: (police and judges), a lot of corruption and money. Judges would wrongfully convict people if their was a need for more labor. They would get fees if they sentenced certain people (blacks).

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How and why did Washington and Dubois differ in their approach to gaining civil rights?

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Booker T. Washington: gradualist He said that African Americans should accept racism. They should win respect from whities. Keep your head down. Work hard, be quiet, earn respect, Agricultural and Mechanical Education.

Dubois: loud and proud. Founded the NAACP, he was a radical. He was more aggressive of the necessary actions. Must force issues of equality. Legal challenges. He approves of academic education. The talented tenth (%10 of the population will be the cause of African American equality), will lead if given the chance. FORCE

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How did the philosophies of the major rights organizations of the 1950s and 60s differ, how did these philosophical differences inpact the actions they pursued?

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Greensboro Sit in → if you want to desegregate something, sit down.
Freedom Rides; rode on buses in order to dissegregate buses.
Freedom Summer: they went to a mostly white college, and over 1,000 volunteers, trained them in nonviolent resistance and help.

SCLC: (Southern Christian Leadership Council) Mass nonviolent protest.
Dr. King
Montgomery Bus Boycott:
March on Washington
Selma -> Montgomery,

NAACP: (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Legal Challenges:
Brown v board of education
Loving v. Virgina: virgina had an anti- duel racial couples.

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Reconstruction amendments

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the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the US. 5 years later, the Civil War began. 13- end slavery, 14 – you are citizens if you are born in America, states have to treat citizens equally 15 – voting

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Jim Crow

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racial segregation laws. It was an act in performances, where a white man would paint himself black and act stupid on stage. There were series of laws that forced racial segregation.

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Literacy Tests

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a government practice of the testing on literacy of potential citizens, but really it was a way to keep black people from voting.
Poll Tax- a practice used to excersize of the ability to vote. Pay money to vote (A.A. were very poor)

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Poll Tax

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a practice used to excersize of the ability to vote. Pay money to vote (A.A. were very poor)

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Granfather CLause

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a provision an old rile continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to future cases.

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Booker T. Washington

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an African American educator, author, and advisor to the president. He believed African Americans should keep their heads down, work hard, and earn respect from their employers.

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W.E. B. DuBois

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First African American PhD from Harvard. He was a radical, and he founded the NAACP.

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NAACP

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(the national Association for the Advancement of Colored People) <- don’t need to know. It is an African American civil Rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. It’s mission is to “ensure political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred”

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SCLC

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(Southern Christian Leadership Council) Mass nonviolent protest.
Dr. King
Montgomery Bus Boycott:
March on Washington
Selma -> Montgomery,

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SNCC

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(student nonviolent coordinating committee) direct action – non violent. Greensboro Sit in → if you want to desegregate something, sit down.
Freedom Rides; rode on buses in order to dissegregate buses.
Freedom Summer: they went to a mostly white college, and over 1,000 volunteers, trained them in nonviolent resistance and help.

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Harlem Renaissance

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a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s, at the time, it was known as the New Negro Movement.

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Dixiecrats

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1948, they left the democratic party because Harry Truman supported civil Rights.

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Civil Disobedience

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the active refusal to obey certain laws that are believed to be wrong. MLK supports, but if your arrested you should serve your time.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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No segregation in public accomidations.

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letter from Birmingham Jail

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MLK’s letter just laws v. unjust laws. His philosophies on civil disobedience.