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| Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) |
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| White audience heard Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise speech. |
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| Supported by Booker T. Washington it said to accommodate racism and that it will always exist we just need to improve it |
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| Plessey v. Ferguson (1896) |
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| A Supreme Court case that established the doctrine of “separate but equal” and upheld a Louisiana law requiring blacks and whites to occupy separate rail cars. Supported by Booker T. Washington. It said that blacks must be separate but can be equal |
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| Jamaican born of working class and was self-educated. He focused on Black Nationalism via entrepreneurship. Supported separatism, Afro centricity, militancy, and focused on the black masses. Looked up to Booker T. Washington. |
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| Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) |
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| Marcus Garvey attracted thousands of black working-class and lower middle-class people in this organization. They were committed to racial purity and separatism. They met and created the Declaration of Rights of Negro Peoples in the World. |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World |
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| in 1920 Black Star Line business meeting in Harlem’s Liberty Hall brought together 25,000 UNIA delegates, and produced an important statement of principles. These principles said that there is no equal treatment of the blacks in society, and that they are subjected to lynching, mobs, and no fair trials. They are treated as slaves still and are denied rights in office/ govt. They do not receive equal wages and children must go to separate/ inferior schools. They worked for equal rights, should be able to elect own representatives, should have fair trials with jury, taxation without representation is unjust, any law that separate blacks is bad, and are against racial term nigger. |
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| Prohibited the manufacture, sale, transportation of intoxicating liquors, took effect in January 1920 |
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| Also, it allows the governor or executive authority of each state, if authorized by that state's legislature, to appoint a senator in the event of an opening, until an election occurs. It was passed and ratified during the Progressive Era. |
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| neither any individual state or the federal government may deny a citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. |
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| election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words, primary elections are one means by which a political party nominates candidates for the following general election. |
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