| Term | Definition |
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| Atlanta Compromise | In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress--Booker T. Washington |
| The Philadelphia Negro | historical investigation, statistical and anthropological measurement, and sociological interpretation |
| The Souls of Black Folks | DuBoise's book, with a chapter analyzing Washington's idealogy |
| Niagara Movement | Twenty-nine men from fourteen states answered the call in Buffalo, New York |
| Crisis magazine | he main artery for distributing NAACP policy and news concerning Blacks which DuBois autocratically governed as its editor-in-chief for some twenty-five years |
| The results of DuBoise's writings in the Crisis after WWI | Inaugurate the opening of Black officer training schools, Bring forth legal action against lynchers, Set up a federal work plan for returning veterans. |
| Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) | Established by Garvey to promote racial pride in African Americans, and to establish a settlement in Africa |
| DuBoise's education | Fisk College, Nashville, Tenessee1885–1888; Harvard until 1891; University of Berlin in Germany for 2 years; doctarate from Harvard |
| birth of Booker T. Washington | born a mulatto slave in Franklin Country on 5th April, 1856. His father was an unknown white man and his mother, the slave of James Burroughs, a small farmer in Virginia |
| Lewis Ruffner's wife | encouraged Washington to learn, and to enter the Hampton Agricultural Institute |
| Samuel Armstrong | principal of the institute and opponent of slavery who had been commander of African American troops during the Civil War |
| Lewis Adams | a black political leader in Macon County, agreed to help two white Democratic Party candidates, William Foster and Arthur Brooks, to win a local election in return for the building of a Negro school in the area. Both men were elected and they then used their influence to secure approval for the building of the Tuskegee Institute. |
| National Negro Business League | program founded by washington placing little emphasis on civil rights, and most emphasis on sucess in business |
| Up From Slavery | washington's autobiography published in 1901 |
| Red Summer | The summer of 1919 when Twenty-five riots occurred between June and the end of the year |
| Garvey's birth | in 1887 in St. Ann's Bay, a small town on the northern coast of Jamaica, which was then a British colony to a father and maternal grandfather who worked as skilled stonemasons |
| Garvey's education | St. Ann's Bay and the Church of England High School |
| Garvey's jobs | a printer in Kingston, a timekeeper on a banana plantation in Costa Rica, a newspaperman in Panama, and other jobs in Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. he later moved to London, where he became an associate of Duse Mohammed Ali, the publisher of a monthly magazine, the Africa Times and Orient Review |
| Garvey's motto | "race first"--to build up the black man's self-esteem and to foster racial pride. |
| colors of Garvey's african flag | red, black, green |
| George Alexander McGuire | Episcopal priest who was the chaplain general of the UNIA |
| Garvey's small businesses | restaurants, a chain of cooperative grocery stores, a steam laundry, a dressmaking shop, a millinery store, a publishing house, and a toy company that manufactured black dolls |
| Garvey's steamship company, and the ships associated with it | Black star line: the Frederick Douglass, Antonio Maceo, Shadyside, Phyllis Wheatley |
| Garvey's nickname for NAACP | the National Association for the Advancement of (certain) Colored People |
| Booker T Washington's spies | Clifford H. Plummer--broke up Trotter's plan; Richard T. Greener, Emmett Scott, --spied on niagra; Melvin J. Chisum--most active spy who tricked chase into becoming dependant on Washington; |
| wealthy white philanthropists who donated to Tuskagee | John D. Rockefeller, Collis P. Huntington, Jacob Henry Schiff, and Julius Rosenwald |
| Afro-American Council | the leading black rights organization of that time who washington goaded into action during the Louisiana case |
| Louisiana case | a case against the Louisiana Grandfather clauses |
| Alabama Suffrage cases | Giles v. Harris (1903) and Giles v. Teasley (1904) using lawyer Wilford H. Smith, and his private secretary Emmett J. Scott |
| William H. Baldwin, Jr | a railroad president who was chairman of the Tuskegee Board of Trustees. Through him, Washington secured a private conference with the president of the Pullman Company, Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln. |
| Warner-Foraker amendment | amendments that would guarantee equal railroad passenger facilities for blacks that washington at first lobbied, but then decided not to |
| Richard Carroll | An ultraconservative reverand who plead on behalf of Pink Franklin for clemency because of Washinton |
| Alonzo Bailey case | A farmworker in Montgomery County, Alabama, Bailey had signed a year contract with a corporate farm to work for $12 a month. he borrowed $20 against his future wages and then left the farm without repaying, he was convicted under the Alabama peonage statute in a criminal suit for signing a contract with intent to defraud |
| Roosevelt's attorney general | Charles J. Bonaparte |
| William Monroe Trotter | Harvard graduate, and starter of weekly newspaper The Guardian. openly criticized washington on several occasions, and ended up being arrested |
| W. Calvin Chase | editor of the anti-Booker newspaper, the Washington Bee |
| Oswald Garrison Villard and Mary White Ovington | two of Washington's white liberal supporters who took a leading role in founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Cosmopolitan Club | A social club of liberal whites and members of the darker races founded y Mary White Ovington who washington leaked to the press and caused controversy |
| birth of DuBoise | February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts |
| Washington Ferguson | Booker T Washington's slave stepfather |
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