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Title: Black Southerners Challenge


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  • Chapter 15
  • Black Southerners Challenge
  • White Supremacy

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Social Darwinism
  • Semi-scientific evidence and academic scholarship
  • Whites (Anglo-Saxons) culturally and racially
    superior
  • Applied evolution to human societies, races
  • Justified great wealth
  • Obligation to share values of western world
  • White mans burden poem echoing the
    responsibility of the advanced white man to take
    care of the genetically less advanced

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II. Education and Schools
  • Irregular and uneven
  • Field work limited black education
  • Few opportunities
  • Equipment and supplies
  • Segregated schools
  • Two school systems
  • Expensive

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Black and White Illiteracy in the United States
and the Southern States, 18801900
  • Figure 151. Black and White Illiteracy in the
    United States and the Southern States, 18801900
  • Although more than half of adult black
    Southerners were still illiterate in 1900, black
    people had made substantial progress in education
    during the last two decades of the nineteenth
    century. This progress is especially remarkable
    considering the difficulties black youngsters and
    adults faced in acquiring even an elementary
    education.

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South Carolinas Black and White Public Schools,
19081909
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The Hampton Model
  • S.C. governor Coleman Blease, Instead of making
    an educated negro, you are ruining a good plow
    hand and making a half-trained fool.
  • Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
  • Founded 1868, Virginia
  • Samuel Chapman Armstrong white missionary
  • Vocational training
  • shoemaking, carpentry, tailoring, sewing
  • Middle class values
  • Accepted Jim Crow practices
  • Prized Student Booker T. Washington

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Washington and Tuskegee
  • Booker T. Washington
  • Apostle of industrial training
  • Hampton graduate
  • Born a slave, 1856
  • Founded Tuskegee Institute, 1881
  • Accepted segregationfor now
  • Stressed learning a skill
  • industrial-agricultural work would earn respect
    and acceptance for race
  • Gained white peoples support and money

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Booker T. Washington
  • Booker T. Washington, looking regal in this
    portrait, was the most influential black leader
    in America by 1900. White business and political
    leaders were reassured by his message that black
    people themselves were responsible for their
    economic progress and that people of color should
    avoid a direct challenge to white supremacy.
    Although W. E. B. Du Bois appreciated
    Washingtons commitment to the advancement of
    black people, he believed more emphasis should be
    placed on developing an educated elite who would
    take the lead in solving the race problem.
    Washington was a Southerner who looked for
    practical solutions to the problems of everyday
    life Du Bois was a Northerner who stressed the
    need for intellectual advancement.

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Tuskegee Critics
  • Subordinate roles
  • Trained black people for lives of labor
  • Education more than acquisition of skills
  • Intellectual growth and development
  • W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Harvard trained scholar
  • Talented tenth
  • The best educated 10 of blacks had to help
    promote progress and advance the race

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III. Church and Religion
  • Baptist was largest denomination
  • More autonomy - self rule
  • Less supervision from church hierarchy
  • Churches provided opportunity free from white
    interference
  • Sanctuary for black women

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Church Affiliation Among Southern Black People
1890
  • The vast majority of black Southerners belonged
    to Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian
    congregations in the late nineteenth century,
    although there were about 15,000 black
    Episcopalians and perhaps 200,000 Roman
    Catholics.

Source Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New
South, pp. 16061.
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The Church Solace and Escape
  • The joys of heaven trials of life will gain
    you rewards in afterlife
  • Emotional involvement
  • Enthusiastic participation
  • Many did not challenge white supremacy
  • Black religious gatherings threatened white
    people
  • Churches burned, black ministers assassinated

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Cool Down
  • Explain the position of both Booker T. Washington
    and WEB Dubois on education.
  • In the late 1800s whos position do you support
    as being better for black education? Explain?

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Page 511 Chapter 15 Section 3 two column notes
List All Key Terms on Page 511 Definitions
Section headings (red and green) Write each section heading and subheading on this side Summary of each sections Detailed highlights of each sections on this side
Guide to Reading Questions on Page 511 Answer the questions on this side
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IV. Red Versus Black The Buffalo Soldiers
  • Army Reorganization Act of 1869
  • Required four all-black regiments
  • Western frontier fighting the Plains Indians
  • Segregated units
  • White officers -Often racist
  • Poor equipment, inferior food, inadequate housing
  • Less likely to desert or use alcohol
  • Developed immense pride as professional soldiers
  • Plains Indians associated black soldiers with
    buffalo

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Military Posts where Black Troops Served,
18661917
Map 151. Military Posts where Black Troops
Served, 18661917 Black troops in the Ninth and
Tenth Calvary and the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth Infantry were assigned almost
exclusively to western military posts from the
end of the Civil War until the early twentieth
century.
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The Buffalo Soldiers
  • Combat
  • Black soldiers used to subdue Red people
  • Civilian hostility to black soldiers
  • Brownsville, 1906
  • Discriminated by white people and Mexicans
  • Civilian attacks on individual soldiers
  • August 14th, violence erupts and black soldiers
    blamed
  • 167 black soldiers dismissed
  • Government admits injustice, 1972

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V. African Americans in the Navy
  • More unappealing than the army
  • Black sailors represented ten percent
  • Integrated ships
  • Blacks and sailors served together
  • White sailors
  • Refused to eat, bunk, or take orders from black
    men
  • Black men stoked boilers, cooked, and served food

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VI. The Black Cowboys
  • 5,000 black cowboys
  • Rode herds
  • Cattle drives to Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri

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Cool Down
  • Do you believe that Booker T. Washington's
    approach of learning a skill or craft was a
    positive approach towards civil rights or do you
    believe that it was accepting of an inferior
    status? Explain.

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IX. Black Entrepreneurs
  • Black businesses
  • Banks, newspapers, insurance companies, etc.
  • Maggie Lena Walker founded St. Lukes Penny
    Savings Bank. Became the wealthiest black women
    in America
  • Madam C. J. Walker developed a formula to
    enrich the hair of black women. Donated to
    Bethune Cookman, Tuskegee and the NAACP. Died a
    millionaire
  • Business failures
  • Too dependent on poor, black people
  • Difficult to obtain financing

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X. African Americans and Labor
  • Black men worked in factories, mines, and mills
  • Usually paid less than white men
  • White men claimed blacks robbed them of jobs
  • Black women worked for white families
  • Cooks, laundresses, and maids

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XI. Black Professionals
  • Strictly segregated
  • Medicine
  • Barred from AMA
  • National Medical Association, 1895
  • Black nurses
  • Inappropriate profession for black women
  • Considered domestics, not trained professional
  • Law
  • Permitted to practice in court
  • Barred from ABA

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XII. Music
  • Ragtime
  • Composed for piano, no lyrics
  • Jazz
  • Not composed and not confined to piano, mostly
    improvised
  • Originated in New Orleans
  • Blues
  • The music of poor, black southerners
  • Guitar, harmonica, washboard

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XIII. Sports
  • Boxing - No official prohibition
  • Jack Johnson First black heavyweight champion
  • Whites looked for a great white hope
  • Retired former champion, Jim Jeffries, unretired
    to fight Johnson and reclaim the title for
    whites.
  • Johnson knocked him out.
  • Johnson divorced his first wife (black) and
    married a white woman.
  • They faced social ostracism, she committed
    suicide
  • Married a second white woman
  • Johnson was arrested for violating the Mann Act
  • Mann Act Illegal to transport a woman across
    state lines for immoral purposes
  • Sentenced to a year in prison and fined 1,000
    he fled to Canada then France.
  • Lost his title in 1915 in Havana in the 26th
    round many believe he threw the fight to avoid
    a longer sentence.
  • Returned to the US and served 10 months in
    Leavenworth Prison.

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Jack Johnson Spars with Marty Cutler
  • Jack Johnson spars with Marty Cutler in the early
    twentieth century. Johnson was a superb fighter
    whose ability to defeat white boxers rankled many
    white men. But Johnsons involvement with white
    women infuriated them even more and led to his
    imprisonment.

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Sports cont.
  • Baseball
  • Both blacks and whites played after the Civil War
  • Moses Fleetwood Walker the last black man to
    play in MLB. Segregated in 1887.
  • Basketball
  • Black children played in organized YMCA games,
    1906
  • College Athletics
  • Black students not allowed to participate
  • All black conference was created, CIAA, Central
    Intercollegiate Athletic Association

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Cool Down
  • In what ways did black people make significant
    professional gains?
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