Other Americans Seek Justice

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Other Americans Seek Justice

• 22-5

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African-Americans

• Ida B. Wells
• Wrote about the lynching of African Americans
• Booker T. Washington
• Founded the Tuskegee Institute of AL
• Believed African Americans should be patient in
  order to make progress in society
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• One of key founders of NAACP
• Believed African Americans should fight actively
  for change

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• Government jobs
• Woodrow Wilson segregates government jobs
• George Washington Carver
• Made advances with crop rotation
• Developed many uses for peanuts
• Madame C.J. Walker
• Created hair care products for African American
  women
• First American woman to become a millionaire

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Mexican Americans

• Created their own neighborhoods called barrios
• Formed mutualistas to help each other
• Mutualistas ? pool money together for insurance,
  legal aid, and health needs

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Asian Americans

• Immigrants from Korea, Japan, and the Philippines
  took low paying jobs in West
• In CA, Japanese were banned from owning land and
  having the same economic opportunities as whites
• San Francisco requires Asian Americans to attend
  separate schools
• Gentlemens Agreement with Japan

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Native Americans

• Many NA lost their land promised to them by the
  government (U.S.)
• Society of American Indians
• Worked for social justice and to educate white
  Americans about the NA culture
• Also felt that NA should adjust to the white
  culture