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Leaders Flashcards

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Abraham Lincoln

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  • opposed the spread of slavery

- Emancipation proclamation 1863

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Andrew Johnson

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  • opposed anti slavery legislation
  • 13th amendment
  • 14th amendment
    15th amendment
  • civil rights act 1866
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Thaddeus Stevens

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  • fought for equal terms with full rights of citizenship
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Radical Republicans

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  • right to live out the American dream which should apply to former slaves
  • wanted harsher treatment for the south and were keener on giving rights to the newly liberated slaves
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Blanche K Bruce

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  • first black leader: local politician who gained the support of a number of white republicans in the government
  • lacked support from others and was unable to help increase civil rights
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Frederick Douglass

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  • leading black opponent of slavery
  • set up his own anti slavery newspaper
  • he refused the offer to run the freedmans bureau because he disproved of Andrew Johnson’s policies
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KKK

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  • active mainly in the southern states
  • ## advocated white supremacy
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Roosevelt

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  • supported the progressive movement but did not really address the question of black civil rights
  • meetings with Booker T Washington
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Ida B Wells

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Her campaign against discrimination Bergson in 1884 when she refused to give up her seat on a train

  • she sued the railway company
  • public opposition to lynching after her friends were falsely accused of rape
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Booker T Washington

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  • Tuskegee institute

- main leader and spokesman for black people for 10 years

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WEB DUBOIS

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  • helped to found the Niagara movement in 1905
  • founded the NAACP in 1909
    -the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University
  • the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • ## Montgomery bus boycott
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NAACP

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  • founded in 1909, the year after the spring field riot
  • first successful nationwide civil rights organisation to campaign systematically for black civil rights
  • played a significant role in the fight for the legal end of segregation
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Marcus Garvey

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  • founded the UNIA in 1917
  • charismatic black leader, put forward the idea of black power
  • inspired by Booker T
  • saw a return to Africa as the only solution
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Congress of racial equality

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  • set up in 1942 to protest against de facto racial segregation
  • committed to achieving integration
  • ## sent some of its members to help in the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Martin Luther king

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  • set up the SCLC
  • match in Washington
  • March on Selma
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SCLC

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  • formed in 1957
  • organised campaigns
  • The SCLC also broadened its focus to include issues of economic inequality, starting the Poor People’s Campaign in 1967.
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Ella Baker

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  • ran a black voters registration campaign as early as the 1930s
  • moved to Atlanta to assist King and the SCLC
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SNCC

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  • set up as a result of the sit ins
  • contributed participants to the 1961 Freedom Rides, cosponsored the 1963 March on Washington, and contributed to voter education and registration drives across the South.
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Malcolm X

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  • conversion to the Nation of Islam
  • became the national spokesman
  • black power
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Stokeley Carmichael

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  • he was an organiser for sncc
  • joined the black panthers in in 1967
  • freedom rider
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Black panthers

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  • started in Oakland California
  • received national attention by armed parades of self defence
  • founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community
  • At its peak in 1968, the Black Panther Party had roughly 2,000 members
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FEPC

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  • set up by Roosevelt in 1941
  • attempt to prevent discrimination in government jobs
  • ## the FEPC was intended to help African Americans and other minorities obtain jobs in home front industries during World War II.
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Jesse Jackson

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  • organised operation bread basket
  • in 1971, he founded PUSH
  • successful in getting thousands of new jobs for African Americans
  • campaigned for presidency x2 (1984 and 1988 second AA)
  • National Rainbow Coalition, whose mission was to establish equal rights for African Americans, women and homosexuals
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Shirley Chisholm

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  • first AA to make a bid for US presidency in 1972
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Universal Negro Improvement Association

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  • goal of uniting all of African diaspora to “establish a country and absolute government of their own.”
  • In 1918, Garvey began publishing the widely distributed newspaper Negro World
  • Garvey and U.N.I.A. had launched the Black Star Line

African Americans (2 decks)

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