Transcript Pictures of Jim Crow

Pictures of Jim Crow
Water Coolers at a train station
Help
Wanted
Waiting
Room
Theater
James W. Smith
James W. Smith
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First African American cadet at West Point
Kicked out under suspicious terms
Taunted, silent treatment
President Grant’s son, “No (black person)
will ever graduate from West Point.”
• Court marshaled twice, held back a year,
expelled
• Died at age 26 of tuberculosis
New York Truth Seeker
April 17, 1880
First Negro at West Point Knifed by Fellow Cadets
West Point, N.Y., Apr. 15 – James Webster Smith,
the first colored cadet in the history of West Point,
was recently taken from his bed, gagged, bound, and
severely beaten, and then his ears were slit, he says
that he cannot identify his assailants. The other
cadets claim that he did it himself.
Ku Klux Klan
Nathaniel Bedford Forrest
• Fort Pillow Massacre
• Killed African
American troops as
they tried to surrender
• Became a hero for this
• The first “Grand
Wizard” of the KKK
• Bed sheets = ghosts
Klan Ideals
"We must keep this a White Man's country. Only by doing this
can we be faithful to the foundations laid by our forefathers.
This Republic was established by White Men. It was
established for White Men. Our forefathers never intended
that it should fall into the hands of an inferior race. Every
effort to wrest from White Men the management of its affairs
in order to transfer it to the control of blacks or any other
color, or to permit them to share in its control, is an invasion
of our sacred Constitutional prerogatives and a violation of
divinely established laws."
Rebirth of KKK
• The Power of Movies
• D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation”
• Civil War movie that showed the Klan as
the heroes
• Increased membership to the Klan
Lynchings
James Byrd
Chained to a truck
Dragged for at
least two miles
Arm and head
were removed
during this ‘ride’
“It was his fault
for hitch-hiking”
Matthew Shepard
Daniel Pearl