Early Civil Rights Movements

Which of the following best captures Garvey's approach to civil rights? Check all that apply.

African Americans can best achieve equality by establishing their own nation

Jackie Robinson's outstanding play for the Dodgers resulted in other baseball owners pursuing black players for their teams.Which leader believed this was the best way to achieve equality?

Booker T. Washington

Read the quote. Put a check next to each of the statements supported in the text.

Du Bois feels that African Americans shouldn't have to apologize in the face of insults. For African Americans to gain equality, Du Bois believes they must refuse to be treated as inferior.

Marcus Garvey advocated for

Pan Africanism, which was a movement to unify all people of African descent.

Homer Plessy staged his arrest on a train to challenge segregation laws.Which leader advocated this approach?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Which leader helped to form the Niagara movement?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Who called for a revival of the abolitionist spirit when he joined the Niagara Movement?

William English Walling

black nationalism

a belief that African Americans should maintain and promote separate identities based on their African ancestry

pan-Africanism

a movement to unify all people of African descent

While Booker T. Washington believed in an accommodationist approach to racial equality, W. E. B. Du Bois believed in:

actively working to achieve civil rights for all.

When Marcus Garvey was in his twenties, he toured Central America and witnessed the oppression of migrant workers, an experience that

inspired his support of Pan Africanism and his political activism.

Which best describes a major problem faced by the Niagara Movement?

lack of organizational structure

In the early 1900s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People strongly urged the federal government to

punish lynch mobs.

Read the quotation by W. E. B. Du Bois."We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults."In this quotation, Du Bois disagrees with Booker T. Washington's accommodationist approach because Du Bois believes that

temporarily accepting discrimination will not lead to equality.

Which of the following was a major goal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People when it was formed in 1909?

to end segregation

Which best describes the purpose of the Niagara Movement?

to support social and political rights for African Americans

What was the purpose of the NAACP? Check all that apply.

to use the court system to fight discrimination to end lynching and other acts of violence against African Americans to abolish segregation