Key Individuals

Question 1

The importance of booker T Washington

Answer 1

1. He believed that hard work and economic gain were more important than gaining civil rights
2. He promoted opposition towards Jim crow law but was to scared about angering white opposition.
3. He was respected by both the white and black community.
4. In 1901 he meets therodre Roosevelt in 1901 and became a informal advisor.

Question 2

The importance of W. E. B du Bois

Answer 2

Du Bois shifted attention to the need to publicise civil rights through the press

His interest in pan africanism.

He was apalled by the lychings as there was 1700 between 1885 and 1894

Niagara movement founded in 1905 pressed for radical change and laid the foundation for the NAACP.

Question 3

The importance of marcus Garvey

Answer 3

1. Garvey’s slogan Africa for the Africans at home and abroad this would prefigure black power.
2. He collected the considerable sum of $10 million and attracted a very large sum of money
3. He claimed that UNIA had 4 million.
4. His ecomic ventures failed and was imprisoned he is seen as a bizarre figure

Question 4

Importance of phillp randolph

Answer 4

1. He understood the power of non violent mass demonstration was key to success.
2. He put pressure on truman to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.
3. The use of marches was important, demonstrations paid off in the long run and these tactics were inspired by Mohandas gandhi
4. His aims were not specific.

Question 5

Martin Luther King Jr

Answer 5

1. He was religious leader so this meant that he very chrasmatic.
2. In 1955 he supported the boycotting of of buses in Montgomery.
3. The scale of activity made it possible for civil rights legastion to be passed on
4. He focused more on legastion and rights than Social issues