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• Conservative
• Focus on a black elite
• Acceptance of ‘true
  womanhood’
• Capitulation to middle
  class values
• Sentimental and
  unchallenging
• Legitimizes inequality
Iola leroy lecture slides
Iola leroy lecture slides
Iola leroy lecture slides
Iola leroy lecture slides
Miscegenation
• Anti-miscegenation
  laws in US until 1967
• Criminalised inter-racial
  marriage
• Sometimes banned
  cohabitation or sexual
  relations
• Ruled as
  unconstitutional by
  supreme court in 1967
Iola leroy lecture slides
Iola leroy lecture slides
May 18, 1896:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation
in America was constitutional.
In Mississippi, fewer than
9,000 of the 147,000
voting-age African
Americans were registered
after 1890.

In Louisiana, where more
than 130,000 black voters
had been registered in
1896, the number had
plummeted to 1,342 by
1904.
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have
been, in favor of bringing about in any way
the social and political equality of the white
and black races, that I am not, nor ever have
been, in favor of making voters or jurors of
negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,
nor to intermarry with white people; and I will
say in addition to this that there is a physical
difference between the white and black races
which I believe will forever forbid the two
races living together on terms of social and
political equality. And inasmuch as they
cannot so live, while they do remain together
there must be the position of superior and
inferior, and I as much as any other man am in
favor of having the superior position assigned
to the white race.

Abraham Lincoln in the first Lincoln-Douglas
debate, 1858.
“white” is not a self-evident category
                  Noel Ignatiev, ‘Immigrants and Whites’
Iola leroy lecture slides
“The problem of the nation”, continued Dr Gresham, “is not
what men will do with the negro, but what will they do with
the reckless, lawless white men who murder, lynch and burn
their fellow-citizens.”
“To be,” continued Iola, “the leader of a race to higher planes of
thought and action, to teach men clearer views of life and duty,
and to inspire their souls with loftier aims, is a far greater
privilege than it is to open the gates of material prosperity and
fill every home with sensuous enjoyment.”
“But it does rile me ter see dese mean white men
comin' down yere an' settin' up dere grog-shops,
tryin' to fedder dere nests sellin' licker to pore
culled people. Deys de bery kine ob men dat used
ter keep dorgs to ketch de runaways. I'd be chokin'
fer a drink 'fore I'd eber spen' a cent wid dem, a
spreadin' dere traps to git de black folks' money.”
“To be born white in this
country is to be born to
an inheritance of privileges, to
hold in your
hands the keys that open
before you the doors
of every occupation,
advantage, opportunity,
and achievement.”
Iola leroy lecture slides
Iola leroy lecture slides

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Iola leroy lecture slides

  • 1. ? • Conservative • Focus on a black elite • Acceptance of ‘true womanhood’ • Capitulation to middle class values • Sentimental and unchallenging • Legitimizes inequality
  • 6. Miscegenation • Anti-miscegenation laws in US until 1967 • Criminalised inter-racial marriage • Sometimes banned cohabitation or sexual relations • Ruled as unconstitutional by supreme court in 1967
  • 9. May 18, 1896: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in America was constitutional.
  • 10. In Mississippi, fewer than 9,000 of the 147,000 voting-age African Americans were registered after 1890. In Louisiana, where more than 130,000 black voters had been registered in 1896, the number had plummeted to 1,342 by 1904.
  • 11. I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. Abraham Lincoln in the first Lincoln-Douglas debate, 1858.
  • 12. “white” is not a self-evident category Noel Ignatiev, ‘Immigrants and Whites’
  • 14. “The problem of the nation”, continued Dr Gresham, “is not what men will do with the negro, but what will they do with the reckless, lawless white men who murder, lynch and burn their fellow-citizens.”
  • 15. “To be,” continued Iola, “the leader of a race to higher planes of thought and action, to teach men clearer views of life and duty, and to inspire their souls with loftier aims, is a far greater privilege than it is to open the gates of material prosperity and fill every home with sensuous enjoyment.”
  • 16. “But it does rile me ter see dese mean white men comin' down yere an' settin' up dere grog-shops, tryin' to fedder dere nests sellin' licker to pore culled people. Deys de bery kine ob men dat used ter keep dorgs to ketch de runaways. I'd be chokin' fer a drink 'fore I'd eber spen' a cent wid dem, a spreadin' dere traps to git de black folks' money.”
  • 17. “To be born white in this country is to be born to an inheritance of privileges, to hold in your hands the keys that open before you the doors of every occupation, advantage, opportunity, and achievement.”