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A 6 page informative paper which examines the inspirational African-American civil rights movement of the early twentieth century that was the forerunner of the NAACP. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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beat, he responded, "It is no disgrace... but it is very inconvenient" (Schechter, 1970, p. 67). This sums up, in a humorous way, how blacks in America felt some
forty years after Abraham Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation. This social and political status as second-class citizens didnt sit well with some black intellectuals of the day, like W.E.B.
Du Bois, then a professor at Atlanta University (Wormser, 2002). He contended that blacks had been denied their civil and human rights from Uncle Sam for too long, and
believed that education was the key to progress not only in terms of the individual but for the African-American culture as well. At the time, Booker T. Washington was the
most influential black person in America, but not everyone agreed with his conciliatory approach to race relations. Washington was not one to rock the boat, which angered Du Bois
and some of his academic contemporaries, who wanted to take a more radical approach. While Washington emphasized the capitalist ideal of hard work and material success as the way
to improve black socioeconomic status, Du Bois believed this would only lead to further exploitation of the black workforce by white business owners. Du Bois understood that blacks needed
to secure a greater foothold in American labor and industry, but there was far more that needed to be done. Du Bois believed what the civil rights movement had
been lacking was strong leadership that would shape public opinion in such a way that equality would not simply be asked for by the minority, but would be demanded (Du
Bois, 1968). Although few men would dare to challenge Washington in the late nineteenth century, such was his power, two opponents to his leadership, William Monroe Trotter and George Forbes,
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