Question

In this city, Henry Turner’s “Am I a Man?” speech protested the expulsion of black legislators. A washerwomen’s strike took place in this city before the International Cotton Exposition. Prosecutor Hugh Dorsey’s racist notions of “old” Black people prevented a Brooklyn-born man in this city from pinning a murder on Jim Conley. W. E. (10[1])B. Du Bois wrote about buying a shotgun after witnessing a racist mob in this city that attacked Decatur Street. (10[2])Mary (10[1])Phagan’s murder led to the antisemitic lynching of Leo Frank in this city, where African Americans were told to “cast (-5[1])down (10[1])[their] buckets where [they] are” (10[1])by Booker T. Washington. For 10 points, a compromise” against civil rights was made in what Southern city where Sherman began his march to the sea? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Atlanta, Georgia [accept Atlanta Compromise]
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