1. Pictures of Jim Crow

2. Water Coolers at a train station

7. Help Wanted

8. Waiting Room

14. Theater

15. James W. Smith

16. First African American cadet at West Point Kicked out under suspicious terms Taunted, silent treatment President Grant’s son, “No (black person) will ever graduate from West Point.” Court marshaled twice, held back a year, expelled Died at age 26 of tuberculosis

17. New York Truth Seeker April 17, 1880 First Negro at West Point Knifed by Fellow Cadets West Point, N.Y., Apr. 15 – James Webster Smith, the first colored cadet in the history of West Point, was recently taken from his bed, gagged, bound, and severely beaten, and then his ears were slit, he says that he cannot identify his assailants. The other cadets claim that he did it himself.

22. Ku Klux Klan

23. Nathaniel Bedford Forrest Fort Pillow Massacre Killed African American troops as they tried to surrender Became a hero for this The first “Grand Wizard” of the KKK Bed sheets = ghosts

24. Klan Ideals "We must keep this a White Man's country. Only by doing this can we be faithful to the foundations laid by our forefathers. This Republic was established by White Men. It was established for White Men. Our forefathers never intended that it should fall into the hands of an inferior race. Every effort to wrest from White Men the management of its affairs in order to transfer it to the control of blacks or any other color, or to permit them to share in its control, is an invasion of our sacred Constitutional prerogatives and a violation of divinely established laws."

27. Rebirth of KKK The Power of Movies D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” Civil War movie that showed the Klan as the heroes Increased membership to the Klan

28. Lynchings

33. James Byrd Chained to a truck Dragged for at least two miles Arm and head were removed during this ‘ride’ “It was his fault for hitch-hiking”

34. Matthew Shepard

35. Daniel Pearl