African-American Progressives

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African-American Progressives

• Honors United States History
• 8.3

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Turn of the Century Black America

• Jim Crow Laws
• Poll Taxes
• Literacy Tests
• Segregated Facilities
• Social Practices
• Sharecropping

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Enforcement of Jim Crow

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• White-Controlled Politicians and Law Enforcement
• Ku Klux Klan
• Lynching

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Birth of a Nation (1915)
5
The Minstrel Show

• Reinforces and popularizes black stereotypes
  through entertainment.

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Fighting Back Booker T. Washington

• Worked to establish vocational training for
  African-Americans.
• Thought it was too soon for African-Americans to
  expect full political rights.
• Worked openly with the white establishment.
• Founded Tuskegee Institute.

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Fighting Back W.E.B. DuBois

• Demanded full political rights for blacks
  immediately.
• First African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard
• Wanted a classical education for
  African-Americans
• Niagra Movement
• Helped found the National Association for the
  Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Urban League

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Fighting Back Marcus Garvey

• Black Nationalist who preached self-reliance
• Founded the Back-to-Africa Movement (Liberia)
• Advocated for black segregation and racial
  purity.
• Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association
  (UNIA)

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Reducing Prejudice

• Anti-Defamation League
• Protects Jews and others from attacks
• Mexican Americans
• PLM
• mutualistas
• Native Americans
• Society of American Indians
• Asian Americans
• Takao Ozawa - 1922