AFROAM 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Universal Negro Improvement Association And African Communities League, National Urban League, Convict Lease
19 Sep 2016
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How did black southerners respond to jim crow at the end of the 19th century: migration, organizations, military. National association of colored women 1896: national federation of african american women, national colored women"s league. National urban league 1910: get aa"s hired/more employment. Universal negro improvement association 1914: marcus garvey. New south could not proceed w/o work of aa"s: whites did not want to pay for what was previously free. Aa"s wanted to own their own land/make their own decisions. Nearly of all capital in the south was human beings during slavery. In the south - 4 million slaves, 8 million whites (1/3 illiterate) Radical reconstruction bring south into submission, create equal biracial citizenship. Whites thought aa"s were ill equipped for freedom. Slavery is abolished except as a punishment for crime . 10. convict leasing (worked in coal mines, on farms, etc. ) John t. milner father of southern industrialization. Convicts died at campus at rates of 30-40% a year.
