HIS 3728 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Henry Frye, Grandfather Clause
20th Century
Aoid Presetis Thik progress Test
Presentism- he you judge the past y today’s stadards ad otet
Myth of Progressivism- the idea that we are better than the people of the past
What kind of state is NC? Progressive Paradox
Charles Aycock-
• Education governor
• started Jim Crow segregation
• disenfranchisement
• built 599 white schools and 99 black schools
• Every other southern state refused to use white taxes to build black schools
• Segregation governor- disenfranchisement, poll tax, literacy tax.
Grandfather clause, reduces black and poor white voters
Judge Henry Frye-
• legislature 1968
• first black man elected to legislature since 1900
• elected to NC supreme court 1983
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