1900-1914
Positive Negative
Booker T Washington Booker T Washington
National Negro Business League 1900- concentrated on 1901- Roosevelt invited Washington to visit him in the
commercial issues and aimed to promote AA businesses White House and was unable to convince Roosevelt to
he secretly funded anti-segregationist activities condemn lynching
remained popular with many black Americans who critics objected to his failure to demand the vote for black
accepted his gradual approach and were inspired by his people or an end to segregation
actions
Ida B Wells Ida B Wells
1901- published a book entitled ‘Lynching and the excuse’ President and the Supreme Court saw lynching as a local
problem and preferred to let individual states handle it
William Du Bois William Du Bois
1903- published his ground-breaking The Souls of Black his book included an attack on Washington for being too
Folks. conservative, and accomodationist
Niagara Movement 1905- demanded manhood suffrage, Niagara Movement 1905- had little impact on influencing
equal economic and educational opportunities, an end to those in power and was never likely to become a mass
segregation and full civil rights movement
editor for the NAACP magazine
crisis article- Du Bois campaigned against lynching and
Jim Crow laws
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
(NAACP) 1909
aimed to investigate racism, publicise it, suggest solutions
and take legal action to enforce the law and the
Constitution to ensure civil rights and equality of
opportunity
launched a major anti-lynching campaign, lobbied
Congress and placed full-page advertisements in the New
York Times and other newspapers
movement also adopted a constitutional approach
1910- black migrants had founded 25 all black towns in the West
Positive Negative
Booker T Washington Booker T Washington
National Negro Business League 1900- concentrated on 1901- Roosevelt invited Washington to visit him in the
commercial issues and aimed to promote AA businesses White House and was unable to convince Roosevelt to
he secretly funded anti-segregationist activities condemn lynching
remained popular with many black Americans who critics objected to his failure to demand the vote for black
accepted his gradual approach and were inspired by his people or an end to segregation
actions
Ida B Wells Ida B Wells
1901- published a book entitled ‘Lynching and the excuse’ President and the Supreme Court saw lynching as a local
problem and preferred to let individual states handle it
William Du Bois William Du Bois
1903- published his ground-breaking The Souls of Black his book included an attack on Washington for being too
Folks. conservative, and accomodationist
Niagara Movement 1905- demanded manhood suffrage, Niagara Movement 1905- had little impact on influencing
equal economic and educational opportunities, an end to those in power and was never likely to become a mass
segregation and full civil rights movement
editor for the NAACP magazine
crisis article- Du Bois campaigned against lynching and
Jim Crow laws
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
(NAACP) 1909
aimed to investigate racism, publicise it, suggest solutions
and take legal action to enforce the law and the
Constitution to ensure civil rights and equality of
opportunity
launched a major anti-lynching campaign, lobbied
Congress and placed full-page advertisements in the New
York Times and other newspapers
movement also adopted a constitutional approach
1910- black migrants had founded 25 all black towns in the West
