New South Review- SS8H7

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Three powerful Georgia politicians (Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years.

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Bourbon Triumvirate

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Managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who promoted the concept of the “New South.”

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Grady, Henry , Henry Grady, Grady

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To deprive a person the right to vote or rights of citizenship.

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Disenfranchisement

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Period after Reconstruction where political and community leaders in the South sought to diversify Georgia’s economy and bring Northern technology and/or investments into the state.

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New South, The New South

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A short lived political party (1892-1908) made up of farmers that were hostile to banks, railroads, and social elites. At the beginning, the party was made up of both whites and blacks. Georgian Tom Watson was a leader and presidential candidate for the party.

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Populist Party, Populist

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Laws created by state legislatures to deny African-Americans or Blacks citizenship rights

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Jim Crow Laws, Jim Crow

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Lawyer, writer, and politician from Georgia; most well-known for his rural free delivery bill; began his career in the independent democrat and populist party with a progressive view of racial policies; ended his career as an ardent segregationist and anti-Semite; died while serving a term as U.S. senator from Georgia.

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Tom Watson

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Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine thus promoting segregation.

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Plessy v Ferguson, Plessy v. Ferguson, Plessy vs Ferguson

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Civil rights leader and college professor who fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans or Blacks.

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Dubois, W.E.B., W.E.B. DuBois, DuBois, W E B DuBois, WEB DuBois

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Founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.

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Alonzo Herndon