1. Early Civil Rights
USH-3.5

2. I. Why?
A movement that challenged the status quo to gain full citizenship for AA
2 most important were:
Equal treatment
Right to vote
Restrictions make this nearly impossible
Jim Crow
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Grandfather clause

3. II. Booker T Washington Born a slave but determined to be educated
Founded Tuskegee Institute
To provide vocational training for AAs
Developed new crops to help poor cotton farmers
He wanted full equality for African Americans
He feared that AAs that were too “aggressive” could be lynched

4. II. Booker T Washington “Atlanta Compromise” speech
It seemed that he was willing to accept discrimination if AAs could get jobs
Southern whites accepted this idea
Southern AAs accepted this idea
Northern AAs thought he was wrong
Didn’t get many jobs anyway

5. III. W.E.B. DuBois Born free in the North
College education and PhD from Harvard
Was totally opposed to Washington’s push for vocational education
Any job should be open if you had the talent
Wanted to develop the “Talented Tenth”

6. III. W.E.B. DuBois
Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Pushed for full social and political rights
Wanted to end segregation
Was militant
AAs liked it
Whites did not

7. IV. Ida Wells-Barnett Born a slave just before emancipation
Grew up working for former master
Went to a Freedmen’s Bureau school
Experienced Jim Crow when she was forcibly moved to a colored-only railroad car
Sued and won
It was overturned on appeal

8. IV. Ida Wells-Barnett Became a teacher then newspaper writer
Wrote an article about segregated schools in Memphis and lost her teaching job
Devoted her life to ending lynching
Forced to leave town b/c of her articles
Helped found the NAACP
Left b/c it was not militant enough