HIS 3728 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Henry Frye, Grandfather Clause

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15 Nov 2016

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20th Century

Aoid Presetis Thik progress Test

Presentism- he you judge the past y today’s stadards ad otet

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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