1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. John Hope
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

7. 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

8. Reconstruction EP