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Title: Civil Rights Advocates


1
Civil Rights Advocates
  • Late 1800s Early 1900s

2
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

3
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

4
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

5
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
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