New South (SS8H7)

SS8H7 Evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia during the New South Era.

a. Identify the ways individuals, groups, and events attempted to shape the New South; include the Bourbon Triumvirate, Henry Grady, International Cotton Expositions, and Tom Watson and the Populists.

b. Analyze how rights were denied to African Americans or Blacks through Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, disenfranchisement, and racial violence, including the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.

c. Explain the roles of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Alonzo Herndon in advancement of the rights of African Americans or Blacks in the New South Era.

d. Examine antisemitism and the resistance to racial equality exemplified in the Leo Frank case.

Suggested Collections 

• Auburn Avenue Research Library Historic African American Education Collections (Auburn Avenue Research Library) 

• Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s : selections from the records of Macon's Douglass Theatre (Middle Georgia Archives)

• Fred L. Howe 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition Photographs 1895 (Atlanta History Center)

• Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills digital collection (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• Leo Frank clemency file (Georgia Archives) 

• Leo M. Frank collections (William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum)

• Leo Frank papers, 1912-1916 (Atlanta History Center)

• Leo M. Frank v. C. Wheeler Mangum, Sheriff of Fulton County, Georgia (National Archives at Atlanta)

• Robert E. Williams Photographs Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898 (Hargrett Library)

Suggested Searches

• 1906 Atlanta Riot 

• Atlanta Compromise Speech

• Joseph E. Brown 

• Alfred H. Colquitt 

• Convict Lease System

• Disenfranchisement

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Leo Frank 

• John B. Gordon 

• Henry Grady 

• Alonzo Herndon

• John Hope

• Lugenia Hope

• 1895 International Cotton Exposition 

• Jim Crow Laws

• New Democrats

• New South

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Poll tax

• Populist Party

• Rural Free Delivery Act

• Booker T. Washington 

• Tom Watson 

• White Primary

Historic Newspapers

• Georgia Historic Newspapers, 1878-1913

• Chronicling America, 1878-1913  (newspapers from throughout the United States) 

  • Plessy v. Ferguson (Jim Crow Laws) in Chronicling America

  • Trial and Lynching of Leo Frank in Chronicling America

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America 

• Environmental Preservation in the Progressive Era 

• The Great Migration 

• Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Activism 

• The Populist Movement 

• Settlement Houses in the Progressive Era 

• Tragedy in the New South: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank (Joint exhibit of DLG and DPLA) 

NGE Articles

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

Posters and postcards

• SS8H7 poster

• SS8H7 postcard

• SS8H7b poster 

• SS8H7d poster