Haters Haters Everywhere I want you to describe a time where you know you were obviously hated on by someone else because you were good at something. How did it make you feel to experience such jealousy? What did you do in reaction to their hate? It’s ok to seem a bit full of yourself today

Giving Hope to the People Compare some influential people in Atlanta’s history, Alonzo Herndon and John and Lugenia Burns Hope Looking at the important people of SS8H7 Give time to work on the Reconstruction EP

African-American Rise Affluent blacks were few and far between at this time Jim Crow laws segregated the people and forced a divide between blacks and whites The debate between Washington and Dubois ideas split the black community although a few became really successful

Alonzo Herndon’s Rise 1858-1927 Born to a slave mother and white father in Social Circle Was sent off the farm with his mother and forced to sharecrop He left Social Circle when he was 20 w/ $11 and learned how to cut hair in Senoia Ga Set up his first Barber Shop in Jonesboro Georgia He eventually opened three barber shops in downtown Atlanta

Alonzo Herndon’s Impact He opened one on Peachtree street with gold and crystal called “the best barbershop in the south” (for white and blacks) Was a target for whites during the 1906 Race Riot He created Atlanta Mutual Life insurance company giving coverage to blacks and is now worth over $100 mill. He eventually moved into real estate and owned shops and houses throughout the south

John Hope 1868-1936 Born in Augusta to a Scottish father and Black mother (although interracial marriage was illegal in Georgia) Hope had to quit school to help his family but later went to Brown university After teaching in Tenn. He was offered a position at Morehouse College Became the first black president of Morehouse and Atlanta University Friend of both Washington and Dubois

Lugenia Burns Hope 1871-1947 Was John’s wife and social organizer Born in St. Louis and moved to Chicago where she started demonstrating and they met Moved to Atlanta and worked to organize the people Became the first vice president of the NAACP After her death her ashes were thrown off of Morehouse College

Reconstruction EP