1. T he Denial Of
Rights
Pr omises Betr ayed
Roles of Booker T. Washington,
W.E. B. DuBois, John and Legenia
Burns Hope, and Alonzo Herdon

2. Jim Crow Laws
 A set of laws instituted to segregate blacks
from whites.
 Public schools
 Restaurants
 Hotels
 Theaters
 Cinemas
 Public bath houses
 Segregation on buses and trains
 Marriage between blacks/whites in many states

3. Plessy v. Ferguson
 Court case heard in the Supreme Court
 Case originated in Lousiana in 1896
 Upheld segregation and deemed legal
and long as facilities were “separate but
equal”
 Ruling in this case justified racial
segregation for 50 years

4. Disenfranchisement
 Various practices enforced for the purpose of
denying Negroes the right to vote, which was
granted by the ratification of the 15th
amendment in 1870.
 Practices included:
 Poll taxes
 Literacy tests
 Record keeping requirements
 Local rule variations

5. Racial Violence
 Tensions increased for various reasons
July 1900, in New Orleans, the “Robert
Charles Racial Riot” occurred after
Robert Charles fought back against 2
white policemen. A white mob killed
Charles and terrorized innocent black
citizens.

6. Atlanta Race Riots
 Occurred Sept. 22nd- Sept. 24, 1906
The Negro population grew from 9000 in 1880 to 35, 000
in 1910.
Growth caused increased competition for jobs and
deepened class divisions.
Articles printed in local newspapers evoked racial tension
to riot level.
2 day rioting resulted in an unofficial death toll of 25-40
blacks and 2 whites
The barbershop owned by Alonzo Herndon was
damaged.

7. Newspaper
Headline

8. Who is Alonzo
Herndon?
 Was a Georgia native who became the
wealthiest Black man in the city of Atlanta at
the time of his death in1927.
 His businesses include a chain of barbershops
and the most successful
 black-owned insurance co. in the nation.
 He owned 100 houses on Auburn Avenue.
 He was active an active member of the NAACP
and founded the National Negro Business
League.

9. Alonzo Herndon

10. Booker T. Washington
 In 1881, he founded Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama.
 He became recognized as the nations foremost
black educator.
 He delivered a speech entitled the “Atlanta
Compromise” in 1895.
 He maintained a conservative approach to
racial equality until his later years.
 He was the first Negro to dine at the White
House. He was an advisor to Theodore
Roosevelt.

11. Booker T Washington

12. W.E.B. Dubois
 Founding member of the
NAACP
 Writer and editor of
“The Crisis” magazine
 He was labeled a “radical”

13. John and Lugenia
Burns Hope
 John Hope Burns, Georgia native, was a professor and
later became President of
 Morehouse College.
 He became founding President of Atlanta University,
the country’s first black graduate school.
 Lugenia Burns Hope founded the Neighborhood Union.
 Union became a model for community building and
race/gender activism world-wide.
 She is the 5th inductee in the Ga Women of
Achievement.

14. The Burns Hope
Family