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Birth of Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans should first gain the skills needed to actually stay afloat in the world that is the United States. Once they mastered the nessesary skills within society, he would start fighting for basic rights. -
Passage of the 13th Amendment
Declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Birth of W.E.B. Dubois
Had a bit of a Violent personality, and believed that African Americans should fight for equal rights immediatly. -
Passage of the 14th Amendment
Guaranteed the right of American citizenship to African Americans and all of the attatched privileges that come with such a right. -
Passage of the 15th Amendment
Enabled African American citizens the right to vote. -
Birth of Marcus Garvey
Was a Jamaican political leader, publsher, journalist, entrepreneur, and ornator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
A supreme court case that legalized segregation, as long as it was equal. -
Creation of the NAACP
To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
