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Required every citizen to pay in order to vote Set literacy tests and educational qualifications To avoid omitting poor white voters, they enacted grandfather clauses
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Granted the right to vote to anyone whose grandfather could have voted prior to 1867 Most salves grandfathers would have never had the right to vote in 1867
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Most still believed that blacks were inferior to whites and deserved to be treated as second class citizens Best-selling book the day was The Clansman D.W. Griffith made it into a hit film, The Birth of a Nation
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From Kentucky Guess where the film premiered????
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Special premiere and screening for President Woodrow Wilson Book’s author was a former classmate
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Born a slave Founded the Tuskegee Institute School for black students in rural Alabama
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Wanted students to learn a trade and workplace discipline Thought through learning an industrial skill, blacks could gain self respect and economic independence
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Thought Blacks should put up with segregation for the time being Had to prove their economic worth to society first Thought whites could help provides blacks with education and job training
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Famous speech given by Washington where he states his views
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Challenged Washington’s views of accommodation First black man to receive a doctorate from Harvard University Wrote The Souls of Black Folk
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Attacked the Atlanta Compromise and Washington Blacks should be given equal rights immediately
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Co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Both had reservations (concerns) about allowing illiterate blacks to vote Also believed that black success in the South was going to require some assistance from whites
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