Jim Crow Lectures

Question 1

How many Black congressmen were there in 1869-77?

Answer 1

16

Question 2

When was the lynching of Henry Smith of Texas?

Answer 2

1893

Question 3

When was the lynching of Sam Hose of Newnan, Georgia?

Answer 3

1899

Question 4

What did Ida B. Wells say of lynching in the North and middle West in 1900?

Answer 4

“lynching mania has spread throughout the North and middle West”

Question 5

“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 _______?”

Answer 5

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?

Question 6

How dod Robin Kelley’s ‘We Are Not What We Seem’ (1993) describe opposition to Jim Crow?

Answer 6

An ‘Infrapolitics’ of struggle, waged daily by subordinate groups like a ‘hidden transcript’ (

Question 7

“In all things that are purely _____ we can be as ______ as the ______, yet one as the hand in all things essential to _____ _____” (Washington, 1895)

Answer 7

“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)

Question 8

Who was one of the first African American women to earn a college degree?

Answer 8

Mary Church Terrell

Question 9

How did Du Bois justify the ‘Talented Tenth’ in 1903?

Answer 9

“The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men”

Question 10

How long did the Niagara Movement last?

Answer 10

1905-10

Question 11

When was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded?

Answer 11

1909

Question 12

How many members and branches did the NAACP have by 1914?

Answer 12

6,000 members and 50 banches

Question 13

When did Black washerwomen in Atlanta strike for control in the Jim Crow era?

Answer 13

1881

Question 14

What did black washerwomen demand in 1881 of the city?

Answer 14

“full control of the city’s washing at our own prices, as the city has control of our husbands’ work at their prices”

Question 15

When did Anna Julia Cooper form the Colored Women’s League in D.C.?

Answer 15

1892

Question 16

When did the National Association of Colored Women form?

Answer 16

1896

Question 17

How many clubs had affiliated to the National Association of Colored Women by 1916?

Answer 17

1,500

Question 18

What was the net worth of Black barber Alonzo Herndon by 1900?

Answer 18

$12,750

Question 19

When did Black boxer Jack Johnson beat Jim Jeffries?

Answer 19

1910

Question 20

When was the Fifth Avenue Silent Parade?

Answer 20

28 July 1917

Question 21

What was the Silent Parade (1917) in numbers?

Answer 21

10,000 on Fifth Avenue after the East St. Louis riots.

Question 22

What kind of New South did journalists and industrialists like Henry Grady imagine in the 1890s?

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

“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)

Answer 23

“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)

Question 24

How much did manufacturing capital in the US grow by in 1880-1900?

Answer 24

253%

Question 25

How much did manufacturing capital in the South grow by in 1880-1900?

Answer 25

391%

Question 26

How did FDR label the Depression-era South in 1938?

Answer 26

The nation’s “number one economic problem”.

Question 27

What was the name of the ship upon which Black people emigrated to Liberia in 1878?

Answer 27

The Azor

Question 28

When did Black people emigrate to Liberia in the 1870s

Answer 28

1878

Question 29

How many left the South as part of the ‘Exoduster’ movement?

Answer 29

40,000