Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alonzo Herndon

Atlanta Race Riot through Alonzo Herndon

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Multiple Choice

Each of the following events lead up to the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot EXCEPT

• Atlanta was the capital of the "New South," adding to racial tensions.
• The headlines about 4 alleged attacks on white women.
• Failure to serve African Americans at a restaurant in the heart of downtown Atlanta.
• Politics revolved around ways to prevent black men from voting.

Multiple Choice

What was a major publicity factor that lead up to the Race Riot?

• Newspaper headlines including alleged attacks on white women
• Radio broadcasting of the protests downtown
• News channels showed scenes of blacks boycotting the bus system
• Letters from the Ku Klux Klan were sent out to rally people for the riot

Multiple Choice

Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?

•  Booker T. Washington
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• . W.E.B. Du Bois                               
• William Lloyd Douglas

Multiple Choice

-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

Booker T Washington's Job

• educator

• Fireman

• Officer

• Pilot

Multiple Choice

Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?

• William Lloyd Douglas

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• George Washington     

• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed

• white people are superior.

• the telephone is the best invention.

• Education for African-Americans is important.

• Equal rights for all.

Multiple Choice

WEB DuBois believed

• African-Americans needed to be educated and involved in politics.

• job skills were most important.

• being a slave was fun.

• having a job was not important.

Multiple Choice

In 1909, DuBois co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

• False

• True

Herndon was born to a slave mother and white
father.

Opened up multiple successful barber shops then
soon began investing in prime real-estate.

Founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company.

Used his wealth to help improve black communities
in Atlanta.

Alonzo
Herndon

Alonzo
Herndon

In 1905, Herndon purchased a

failing insurance company, which
he incorporated as Atlanta Mutual

Insurance Association. He took

over a company which had $5,000

in assets in 1905. By 1922 the

company had more than $400,000

in assets. That year Herndon

changed the name of the company
to Atlanta Life Insurance Company.

his acquisition strategy made
Atlanta Life one of the most

successful black businesses in the

nation by the 1920s.