Jim Crow Lectures Flashcards
How many Black congressmen were there in 1869-77?
16
When was the lynching of Henry Smith of Texas?
1893
When was the lynching of Sam Hose of Newnan, Georgia?
1899
What did Ida B. Wells say of lynching in the North and middle West in 1900?
“lynching mania has spread throughout the North and middle West”
“If the _______ and _____ race is free to impose its will upon ‘new-caught, sullen peoples’ on the other side of the globe, why not in South ________ and _______?”
If the stronger and clever race is free to impose its will upon ‘new-caught, sullen peoples’ on the other side of the globe, why not in South Carolina and Mississippi?
How dod Robin Kelley’s ‘We Are Not What We Seem’ (1993) describe opposition to Jim Crow?
An ‘Infrapolitics’ of struggle, waged daily by subordinate groups like a ‘hidden transcript’ (
“In all things that are purely _____ we can be as ______ as the ______, yet one as the hand in all things essential to _____ _____” (Washington, 1895)
“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress” (Washington, 1895)
Who was one of the first African American women to earn a college degree?
Mary Church Terrell
How did Du Bois justify the ‘Talented Tenth’ in 1903?
“The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men”
How long did the Niagara Movement last?
1905-10
When was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded?
1909
How many members and branches did the NAACP have by 1914?
6,000 members and 50 banches
When did Black washerwomen in Atlanta strike for control in the Jim Crow era?
1881
What did black washerwomen demand in 1881 of the city?
“full control of the city’s washing at our own prices, as the city has control of our husbands’ work at their prices”
When did Anna Julia Cooper form the Colored Women’s League in D.C.?
1892
When did the National Association of Colored Women form?
1896
How many clubs had affiliated to the National Association of Colored Women by 1916?
1,500
What was the net worth of Black barber Alonzo Herndon by 1900?
$12,750
When did Black boxer Jack Johnson beat Jim Jeffries?
1910
When was the Fifth Avenue Silent Parade?
28 July 1917
What was the Silent Parade (1917) in numbers?
10,000 on Fifth Avenue after the East St. Louis riots.
What kind of New South did journalists and industrialists like Henry Grady imagine in the 1890s?
Henry Grady and other industrialists in the 1880s promoted a New South, free from racial conflict, sporting diverse agriculture and class-conflict free industrialisation, and restored to importance. The Old South based on slavery and agriculture was destined to decline, accelerated by the war.
“the _______ of the white race of the ______ must be maintained forever, and the ________ of the ______ race resisted at all points and at all hazards, because the white race is the _______ race” (Henry Grady)
“the supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever, and the domination of the negro race resisted at all points and at all hazards, because the white race is the superior race” (Henry Grady)
How much did manufacturing capital in the US grow by in 1880-1900?
253%
How much did manufacturing capital in the South grow by in 1880-1900?
391%
How did FDR label the Depression-era South in 1938?
The nation’s “number one economic problem”.
What was the name of the ship upon which Black people emigrated to Liberia in 1878?
The Azor
When did Black people emigrate to Liberia in the 1870s
1878
How many left the South as part of the ‘Exoduster’ movement?
40,000
