Civil Rights Advocates

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Civil Rights Advocates

• Late 1800s Early 1900s

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The Matter of Civil Rights

• The Promises of the Civil War Amendments
• 13th Abolished slavery
• 14th guaranteed citizenship and equal protection
  of the laws
• 15th stated that right to vote could not be
  denied due to race, color or previous condition
  of servitude

• Reality of life in the late 1800s
• Vote was denied by poll taxes, literacy tests,
  KKK
• Jim Crow laws required legal segregation based on
  race
• Economic opportunities were limited by lack of
  education and skills

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Booker T. Washington

• Born a slave
• Founder of Tuskegee Institute
• Believed in Vocational education( skill based)
• Wrote autobiography Up From Slavery
• Conciliatory approach to civil rights
• Pull yourself up by your own boot straps

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W.E.B. DuBois

• Born in North a freeman
• Well educated (Harvard)
• Founder of the Niagara Movement ? NAACP (National
  Association for the Advancement of Colored
  People)
• Educate according to ability
• More direct, militant approach to civil rights

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Ida Wells

• Born to slave parents
• Teacher/Journalist
• One of founding members of NAACP
• Anti-lynching campaign, suffragist
• One had better die fighting injustice than die
  like a dog or a rat in a trap