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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

4
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

5
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
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