Pictures of Jim Crow

Water Coolers at a train station

                                                                                

Help Wanted

Waiting Room

                                      

Theater

James W. Smith

James W. Smith

• 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 SeekerApril 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