HIS 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: W. E. B. Du Bois, National Urban League, Homestead Acts
7 Feb 2017
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Organization: travelers aid - set up by middle class women. Help them get to the right place. Wwi demand of factory work black men ~ afterward lost it. Blockbuster - go to the neighborhoods & scare them into selling houses ~ white ppl felt their homes were being invaded. Reception: less discrimination, some political participation, also resentment. Profession boxer: jack johnson - mann act. Fbi gave him a choice - prison or another country - chose latter. Advocate for black rights - esp against lynchings. National boycott of birth of a nation 1915. Strategy: try to align w/the democrats ~ unsuccessful. 1st to notion that black is beautiful - encourage self respect. Plan to bring blacks back to africa. No longer trace the line of frontier. Mining - gold, silver, copper ~ mountain states. Farming - homesteaders - break prairie soil. Ranching - heard animals - sheep & cattle. Urban - cities in the north growing faster.
