Across
- 3. Founder of Albany State University.
- 6. The Democratic Party’s rule of 1900 that its primaries for statewide offices would be open to whites only.
- 7. The movement of southern African Americans from the South to the North; it began after World War 1 and lasted until the 1960s.
- 9. Occurs when a mob of people murder someone, usually by hanging.
- 12. She founded the first school for African American children in Augusta.
- 13. Born into slavery in Virginia, he longed as a young boy to attend school as he saw his white owner’s children doing.
- 15. Wrongly accused of the 1913 murder of a 13 year old girl named Mary Phagan.
- 16. prejudice.
- 17. He was born free and had not faced the same racial attitudes.
Down
- 1. An organization formed in 1909 by white liberals and members of the Niagara Movement to work for the rights of African Americans.
- 2. An irrational hostility toward another person, group, or race.
- 4. The doctrine, established by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy V. Ferguson, that public places could be separate by race, but that they had to be “equal”.
- 5. The founder of the Neighborhood Union in Atlanta.
- 8. A clause inserted in the Georgia constitution in 1908 that allowed a man to register to vote who had fought for the United States in a war or for the Confederacy in the Civil War or was a descendant of such a person; the clause disfranchised most of Georgia’s African Americans.
- 10. To change a court sentence to one that is less severe.
- 11. To take the right to vote away from someone or some group.
- 14. The first black president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University.