African American History FINAL Exam

WEB DuBois reaction to being fed up with Booker T Washington's need to include white people, the purpose was to form an organization that would offer a militant alternative. Intellectual elite of the African American community. Renounced policy of accomadation and conciliation; made demands for black rights

Founded by white and black activites; WEB DuBois was editor of publication "The Crisis"; challenged segregation; main goals to fight for integration and against discrimination in all areas of American life

Advocated for a return to Africa, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Originally reform association dedicated to racial uplift and est. educational and industrial opportunities for blacks; Harlem branch; back to Africa, Marcus Garvey

Between 1900 and 1970, blacks moving from place to place to find decent living; blacks moving North on train; factory jobs in big cities; looking at the North as the true land of freedom; Southern whites feared migration depriving of black labor; six million blacks est to have migrated

Between 1917-1935; Harlem was teh MEcca to which black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars traveled

1920s; promoted fundamentalism and devout patritism along with advocating white supremacy; Klan attacked the elite, urbanites, and intelectuals as well as blacks, catholics, jews, and foreigners; membership ballooned in 1920s; tried to get klan members elected

1920s; a union for sleeping car porters; on the verge of collapse when Congress passed federal laws guaranteeing rights of all unions

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Set the precedent that seperate facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were equal

1898; legally disenfranchise illiterate voters

1954; held that racial segregation of children in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th ammendment

Like brown v. board but for a law school; same outcome

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