Unit 6 Graphic Organizer 3
SS8H7cd: Civil Rights/WWI
Early Civil Rights Leaders
John Hope
• Leader in black community
• Pres. of Morehouse College & Atlanta Univ
• Committed to public education, equal
housings/ job opportunities for blacks
• Supported full civil rights for blacks in a time
when they were supposed to accept
inequality.
Lugenia Burns Hope
• Social activist & community organizer
• Helped found Neighborhood Union to
provide assistance to needy black families
• 1st VP of Atlanta chapter of NAACP
World War I
Reasons for the war
• Militarism
• Alliances
• Imperialism
• Nationalism
About the War
• European conflict
• final straw: assassination of Archduke and
Alonzo Herndon
• Born a slave, became sharecropper, then
went to barbering school
• Became successful entrepreneur investing in
real estate
• Owner of Atlanta Life Ins. Co.
• Atlanta’s richest black man @ time of death
• U.S. stayed our at first
• Lusitania sank by Germans & U.S. still stayed out
• U.S. entry into war after until Germany tried to ally
with Mexico and attack U.S. (Zimmerman Telegram)
• U.S. entered toward the end and was benefited
economically…boosted U.S. economy.
Georgia’s Role
• Military bases
• Housed POW
• Agricultural Products
• More than 100,000 men/women to war effort
Archduchess of Austria Hungary…WWI began
• Pres. Wilson pledged to keep U.S. out of WWI
during his reelection campaign
How did John/Lugenia Burns Hope feel
about Washington’s strategy for Civil
Rights?
He did not agree with Washington’s
accommodation strategy.
What did DuBois, John/Lugenia Hope, and
Washington all have in common?
They are all associated with improving
education/lives of blacks in one way or
another
GA’s role in the war
U.S. in WWI
WWI
Reasons
European
Conflict
GA’s cont.
Neutrality
M.A.I.N.
Agriculture
Lusitania/
Zimmerman
Telegram
Troops
Military
Bases