New South Flashcards
Needs fixing for blacks
- no starting salary
- contract labor wasn’t right because blacks couldn’t read
Sharecropping
-Works on another person’s land and gets a share of that crop
South economy
- mostly agricultural but now they use factory mills for cotton
- Birmingham was known for steel
- tobacco industry born, centered in SC
- my name, lumbar, & railroad comes from North
South society
-blacks voting, owning farms and businesses
Madame. CJ Walker
- Starts an at-home business for hair products
- cells through churches, newspapers, & DOOR TO DOOR
Ida B Wells
-Starts in organization against lynching
in South and bring inter/national attention through newspapers and magazines
W.E.B Dubois
- Starts movement against segregation
- “institutionalized segregation is wrong”
Booker T. Washington
Blacks need to make themselves indispensable to whites with education and learning new skills (technical training)
Politics
-Blacks are voting and holding political office
Polling for blacks
- Literacy test, interpret constitution, grandfather clause, multiple ballots
- poll tax: you must pay to vote, not everyone can afford to
Segregation in education
Primary and secondary schools became segregated