Civil Rights Movement

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Booker T. Washington

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Ex-slave;
Began Tuskegee University;
Believed blacks should go to school, learn skills, and work their way up;
Atlanta Compromise;
Organized black voters and fought against harmful laws;
bespoke racial pride that contributed to the rise of black nationalism

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Encouraged blacks to fight for their civil rights;
Suggested that crime stemmed from the environment blacks lived in;
Spoke of a "new negro" proud and more militant;
Developed newspaper "Crisis" becoming intellectual voice of blacks in Harlem

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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1896
Upheld Louisiana stature requiring "separate but equal" accomodations on railroads;
Declared segregation is not discrimination

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Jim Crow Laws

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Seperate "black" cars on railroads;
Series of restrictions on black civil rights imposed by southern states;
Segregated schools, railroad cars, hotels, and hospitals