African american leaders have responded to racial discrimination in the united states in a variety of ways. compare and contrast the goals and strategies of african american leaders in the 1890s –1920s with the goals and strategies of african american leaders in the 1950s –1960s.

1890-1920's

Booker T.

(1881) Washington who rose out of slavery supported the strategy of gradualism which thus gained him a lot of support from the white peoples.

W.E.B Du Bois

(1910) Only African American of the five activists who formed the NAACP in 1910; NAACP officer and  editor of The Crisis (NAACP journal).

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

(1889) Fought for rights through journalism. Activism triggered by personal experience with the segregated Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in  1884 and the lawsuit she brought against the railroad in her hometown of Memphis, TN.  In 1889 became co-owner and operator of the newspaper Free Speech and Headlight.

1950-1960's

Civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s. Civil Rights Act was passed in 1957

Jim Crow Laws were granted  in the 14 Amendment (1868) during Reconstruction which equal protection under the law. Following this was the 15 Amendment (1870) gave black's the right to vote.

Explanation: African American-Post Civil War era, civil rights movements exploded for African Americans of the time period because of the Civil War

The Civil War emerged due to tensions between the North and the South on the issue of whether to abolish or continue slavery

WWI in illustrated the racial discrimination in the war led to the Great Migration of African Americans to the North to take advantage of economic and social opportunities

christopher columbus (1492–1504)

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

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