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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.

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2  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

3  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

4  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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6  From Kentucky  Guess where the film premiered????

7  Special premiere and screening for President Woodrow Wilson  Book’s author was a former classmate

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9  Born a slave  Founded the Tuskegee Institute  School for black students in rural Alabama

10  Wanted students to learn a trade and workplace discipline  Thought through learning an industrial skill, blacks could gain self respect and economic independence

11  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

12  Famous speech given by Washington where he states his views

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14  Challenged Washington’s views of accommodation  First black man to receive a doctorate from Harvard University  Wrote The Souls of Black Folk

15  Attacked the Atlanta Compromise and Washington  Blacks should be given equal rights immediately

16  Co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

17  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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