HIST206 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Rebecca Latimer Felton, Jim Crow Laws, Temperance Movement
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Raleigh, north carolina and received a doctoral degree in paris. Immersed herself in the woman sufrage movement and the promoion of female educaion. When the idea of white supremacy proved insuicient to sustain order. The changes none the less brought poliical and social turmoil, emboldening black people like cooper to assert their right encouraging women to work outside the home and pursue public careers and frightening some white men. Then new south"s newness was to be found primarily in its economy. The south"s ciies grew but it did not bring electricity, telephones, public health services or public schools to the rural south. Solid south the one-party (democraic) poliical system that dominated the south from 1890s to the 1950s. By the 1900s the black southerners felt even more isolated from the white southerners than at anyime since 1865. A growing iron and steel industry, texile mills that rivaled those of new.