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WorksheetsAdvancement of Black Rights and Leo Frank/Mary Phagan Case
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 4mins
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois did NOT have which of the following in common?
Both were passionately working towards black social and economic progress.
Both felt blacks should accept discrimination while working hard to earn respect.
Both were pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement.
Both viewed education as a way towards black advancement.
Who started life as a slave, became a sharecropper, and eventually established businesses in Atlanta such as the Crystal Palace becoming a millionaire?
Alonzo Herndon
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Leo Frank
Who urged blacks to take political action and was against views of compliance for fear of increased white oppression?
Booker T. Washington
Alonzo Herndon
Leo Frank
W.E.B. DuBois
Who urged African-Americans to stop advocating for social and political equality and focus instead on economic opportunities?
Alonzo Herndon
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Leo Frank
Alonzo Herndon could best be characterized as ______.
a successful Georgia sharecropper
a well-known politician in the Populist Party
a financial success during the New South Era despite racial injustice
an educator and spokesman during the International Cotton Exposition
The Leo Frank Case along with propaganda by Tom Watson increased feelings of hatred towards _____.
blacks
poor white farmers
KKK
Jews
Who was Mary Phagan?
A janitor at a pencil factory working for Leo Frank.
The head of a small group of knights with similar goals as the Ku Klux Klan.
A Jewish child who became the owner of a pencil factory during the New South Era.
A young employee of a pencil factory who was killed after picking up her pay check.
Leo Frank was later killed by which group of people?
The Knights of Mary Phagan
The Bourbon Triumvirate
Racial and ethnic tensions existed in Georgia during the New South Era. Which events were evidence of the racial and ethnic tensions? (There can be more than one answer.)
Leo Frank Case
International Cotton Exposition
Industrialization
Atlanta Riot of 1906
