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African American Civil Rights
  • Analyze the NAACP, UNIA, ADL, ACLU

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APK
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Importance
  • The NAACP did all of the following except
  • 1. fight for legislation to protect African
    Americans.
  • 2. work with anti-lynching organizations.
  • 3. propose that African Americans move back to
    Africa.
  • 4. publish The Crisis.

4
NAACP GOALS
  • To promote equality of rights and to eradicate
    caste or race prejudice among the citizens of the
    United States to advance the interest of colored
    citizens to secure for them impartial suffrage
    and to increase their opportunities for securing
    justice in the courts, education for the
    children, employment according to their ability
    and complete equality before law.

5
NAACP
  • Original goals
  • End Jim Crow Laws
  • Legal segregation
  • Oppose Pres Wilson racial segregation policies
  • Hiring
  • Government offices
  • Urged African Americans to serve in WWI

6
NAACP
  • Protest Birth of a Nation
  • False truth
  • Wilson
  • "it is like writing history with lightning. And
    my only regret is that it is all so terribly
    true".
  • After WWI worked to stop lynching

7
UNIA - Marcus Garvey
  • Marcus Garvey
  • Black Nationalist
  • Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
  • enthusiastic audience in the United States,
  • Garvey attract thousands of disillusioned black
    working-class and lower middle-class followers
  • became the most popular black leader in America
    in the early 1920s.
  • The UNIA, committed to racial purity and
    separatism,
  • Insisted salvation for African Americans meant
    building an autonomous, black-led nation in
    Africa.
  • To this end, the movement offered in its Back to
    Africa campaign a powerful message of black
    pride and economic self-sufficiency.

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Marcus Garvey-Back to Africa
  • UNIA-Build up AA respect and racial power and
    pride
  • Back to the motherland-separation of the races
  • 10 Million-Jailed for fraud
  • Deported to Jamaica in 1927

10
Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois
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ADL
  • "to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience
    and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the
    defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate
    purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment
    to all citizens alike and to put an end forever
    to unjust and unfair discrimination against and
    ridicule of any sect or body of citizens."

12
ADL
  • Reducing all forms of bigotry
  • Specifically Anti-Semitism
  • Against Nazi, Skinheads, KKK, Henry Ford
  • Some criticism of Israel is also bad
  • Separate Church State
  • Defend all religions

13
American Civil Liberties Union
  • ACLU
  • Worked to uphold the constitution and civil
    rights
  • 1920s worked to help citizens from deportation
  • Fought against Palmer Raids to clear names of
    accused
  • Urged labor unions to meet despite communist
    socialist threats

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Imoprtance
  • The NAACP did all of the following except
  • 1. fight for legislation to protect African
    Americans.
  • 2. work with anti-lynching organizations.
  • 3. propose that African Americans move back to
    Africa.
  • 4. publish The Crisis.

15
Closure
  • The American Civil Liberties Union was originally
    formed to
  • prevent immigration to America from Japan and
    Europe.
  • pass safety measures to protect the health of
    industrial workers.
  • organize labor unions for American workers in
    many industries.
  • protect Americans' constitutional rights and
    freedoms.

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Closure
  • Which speaker most strongly agrees with the
    beliefs of the NAACP?
  • Speaker A The African American demands
    equality political equality, industrial
    equality, and social equality and he is never
    going to be satisfied with anything less.
  •  Speaker B Equal but separate accommodations for
    the white and colored races are for the
    preservation of the public peace and good order.
  • Speaker C Vocational training will provide the
    means for African Americans to gain the civil
    liberties they deserve.
  • Speaker D The best answer for the equality of
    the African American lies in a return to his
    homeland in Africa.
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