Checkpoint #3

By 2acarter

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    An African American man refused to sit in a Jim Crow car
    He broke a Louisiana law.
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    international cotton exposition

    International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. It planned to show the progress made since the city's destruction during the Battle of Atlanta and new developments in cotton production.

  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington
    Booker Washington put himself through school and later became a teacher. He also became a writer and paired with W.E.B Du Bois.

  • Alonzo Herndon

    Alonzo Herndon
    He was the founder and president of Atlanta Life Insurance Company.He was also Atlanta's richest black man.

  • 1906 Atlanta Riot

    1906 Atlanta Riot
    During the Atlanta riot many white people killed many black people. A lot of underlying cases were told about the riot.

  • John and Lugenia Hope

    John and Lugenia Hope
    She was an activist, reformer and, a community organizer. She worked to improve black communities.

  • W.E.B Du Bois

    W.E.B Du Bois
    Du Bois studied at Harvard University and other schools. He got famous from stuff like Souls of Black Folk.Before he died he went to live in Ghana to work on the African encyclopedia.

  • Leo Frank Case

    Leo Frank Case
    A Jewish man was convicted for raping and murdering a thirteen year old girl. Before lynching the case of Mr. Leo Frank the case was heard all over.

  • Tom Watson and the Populists

    Tom Watson and the Populists
    Tom Watson was an attorney, politician, and a writer. A the leeadr of the populist party he championed poor farmers.
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    holocaust

    was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.[4] The victims included 1.5 million children[5] and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe.[6] Some definitions of the Holocaust include the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to about 11 million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany.