African%20American%20Civil%20Rights

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African American Civil Rights

• Analyze the NAACP, UNIA, ADL, ACLU

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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."

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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

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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.

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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.