Jim Crow Part II

1898

• 1.Chance to strike a blow against Jim Crow
• 2. To break down that infernal race prejudice and to have a page in history acsribed to them

• 1.Blacks would be constitutionally disfranchised and corruption and violence at the polls would stop.
• 2.A constitutional convention was called to theoretically legally disfranchise all illiterate voters.

• 1. Economic Prosperity
• 2. Strong black and middle white midddle class

Firemen, policemen , civil rights

They were able to transfer the skills they learned in slavery.

blacksmith, carpenter,

Publisher of the only black newspaper in North Carolina.

the only black owned newspaper in 1898.

18 year old woman, who refused to accept that way of life, educator

to break down the walls of segregation

• 1. they didnt like that blacks were upwardly mobile
• 2. ex slaves had different attitudes
• 3. ex-slaves dressed better
• 4. black people felt equal to whites economically

• 1.Poor whites as economically threatening
• 2. Rich whites saw them as politically threatening

• 1. To put an end to blacks being upwardly mobile.
• 2. To have control of the city

Democratice party was used to end political power. Objective was to replace all black officers. They rented a hotel room and devised a plan to fabricate a situtaion that would separate middle class blacks. They said that white women were in danger of black men.