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Post-Reconstruction Backlash Jim Crow segregation laws Exodusters to Kansas “Talented Tenth” move northward (NY, Chicago)
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Plessy v. FergusonPlessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal”
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The Great MigrationThe Great Migration Movement from rural South to urban North Response to segregation and violence Rise of urban ghettos
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Violence in the NorthViolence in the North Increased with the Great Migration Spread of the KKK Lynchings
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The 1920s – Disillusionment
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How to respond to segregation?
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Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington Economic equality, social separation (aka The Atlanta Compromise) Former slave His advice to blacks: be the “most patient, faithful, law-abiding and unresentful people that the world has seen” Confidential advisor to Theodore Roosevelt Successes – 1904 – fought against exclusion of blacks from juries 1911 – Supreme Court ruling banning peonage (involuntary servitude for debt)
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W.E.B. DuBoisW.E.B. DuBois Black nationalism and immediate equality Harvard educated Professor of economics, history & sociology at Atlanta University 1905 – founded the Niagara Movement 1909 – founded the NAACP Editor of The Crisis Pan-Africanist Joined the Communist Party in 1957 and in 1960 renounced his American citizenship and moved to Ghana
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Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey Black nationalism Self-pride, self-motivation, self-sufficiency Racial separation – rejected assimilation & integration Called for whites to leave Africa and for many Blacks to move to Africa Died without ever going to Africa
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UNIA Encourage commercial & industrial pursuits By the mid 1920s – 700 branches in 38 states The Negro World (Garvey’s paper) Liberty Hall Black Star Line of Ships
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