LEADERS & GROUPS (OCR History A2: African American Civil Rights)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Booker T. Washington | 1881-1915 Ran the Tuskegee Institute, gave the Atlanta Speech, accommodation, organised the Negro Business League. |
| Ida B. Wells | 1884-1931 Sued the railroad company, public opposition to lynching, women's rights. |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | 1903-1963 Founded the Niagara Movement (1905), founded the NAACP. |
| Marcus Garvey | 1917-1925 Founded UNIA (1917), blacks taking control of their own affairs, Black Eagle Star Steamship, open air parades, military style leadership. |
| NAACP | 1909- present Both black and white supporters, peaceful, focus on legal aspects, constitutional organisation, significant long-term role. |
| UNIA | 1917-1927 Campaigned for equal rights and independence of blacks rather than absorbing into the melting pot, encouraged to develop their own institutions, etc. |
| Thurgood Marshall | 1940-1993 Black lawyer winning nearly all the NAACP cases and was the first black Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | 1954-1968 Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955), Birmingham Protest (1963), "I have a dream" speech (1963), sit-ins, freedom rides, peaceful, desegregation, political rights. View changed later on. |
| Malcolm X | 1960-65 Member of the Nation of Islam, violent, economic and social rights, wrote in a journal, gave speeches, black superiority, views later changed. |
| Black Panthers | 1966-1976 Economic emphasis, influenced by Black Power and Malcolm X, had a 10-point programme, violent, military style. |
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