1. 456-461 - Compar 456-461 - Compar 445-461 Analyze the impact of media on society during Reconstruction. Describe how the black community responded to the failure of Reconstruction.

2. Analysis: “The Birth of a Nation” Read background article. Write down your thoughts related to the discussion questions as we view these clips from the movie:movie What messages do you think the film is trying to convey? Area there any stereotypes or inaccuracies shown in the film? Does the film glorify or attack any group? Scene I: “The Northern Raid” Scene II: “The Response” Scene III: “The Rescue”

3. Settling the Race Issue Why was this allowed to occur? There was a national consensus on race 1890s many Americans believed blacks were inferior to whites and could be treated as second-class citizens. For example: Advertisements, books, movies and other media stereotyped blacks. Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman glorified KKK and was later made into D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation.

4. Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, a black man whom the filmmaker described as "a renegade, a product of the vicious doctrines spread by the carpetbaggers." Scene from Birth of a Nation

5. Settling the Race Issue Why was this allowed to occur? For example : Advertisements and books stereotyped blacks. Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman glorified KKK and was later made into D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation. So-called “Scientific Racism” tried to support white superiority on a biological basis. Historian William Dunning wrote that blacks did not have the capacity or ability to vote. Harvard professor Charles Adams claimed “scientific facts” supported the inferiority of blacks. Print media such the Outlook and New York Times published articles supporting this.

6. Settling the Race Issue Why was this allowed to occur? For example : So-called “Scientific Racism” tried to support white superiority on a biological basis. Historian William Dunning. Harvard professor Charles Adams. Print media such the Outlook and New York Times published articles supporting this. Congress and the Supreme Court upheld laws which discriminated against blacks.

7. Settling the Race Issue Response of the Black Community: Race riots erupted in Indiana, Illinois and Georgia with little success. Boycotts of streetcar systems took place between 1896-1908 to desegregate them failed. A.M.E. Bishop Henry Turner encouraged many to migrate to Liberia. Many developed their own separate black communities in the urban South creating businesses, churches and newspapers. Black leaders became active: Ida B. Wells ran a Memphis newspaper

8. Settling the Race Issue Response of the Black Community: Black leaders became active Ida B. Wells Booker T. Washington Worked his way through Hampton Institute. 1881 founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for vocational training for blacks. “Atlanta Compromise”- urged blacks to accept their position until they could improve their economic position.

9. Settling the Race Issue Response of the Black Community: Black leaders became active Ida B. Wells Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois First black man to earn a doctorate at Harvard University and taught at Atlanta University. In 1910 he co-founded the N.A.A.C.P. with the goal of restoring civil rights to blacks. Wrote “The Soul’s of Black Folk” where he agreed with Washington that white help was needed, however, civil rights were necessary now not later. W.E.B. DuBois