the Democrats were able to control the southern states
Martin Luther King Jr's speech became so famouse because he got all the whites to look at African Americans the same as they look at there own people.
Most notably, FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, Alabama governor, George Wallace but in a real sense, most all southern whites as well as many other white Conservatives around the country.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Poor southern whites often moved to search for new land once the soil became exhausted. Some turned to subsistence farming, sharecropping, or tenant farming to make a living. Others migrated to cities in search of industrial work.
Slavery began in Virginia and Maryland on tobacco farms. Slavery became more and more important as farms became bigger. That divided the Southern whites into two classes.
Voted Democrat.
slavery
Southern farmers Populists Southern whites
In 1865 Southern whites defined freedom as controlling their future without northern interference
Jack Johnson-Apex
As the Reconstruction era passed, Southern whites became back in control of the old South. They passed all types of "laws" designed to prevent Blacks form voting. This enabled whites to regain the political power they lost right after the US Civil War.
6,100,000 Southern people owned no slaves.
Farmers?
southern whites.
Poor southern whites fought to defend many things. These people fought to keep their land, their rights, and often their workers.