Comparing Washington And Dubois's Contribution To The Civil Rights Movement

Despite the rise of a few prominent black leaders in the early 1900s such as Washington and DuBois, the black community made little immediate progress because they were discredited and did not have the support of the white majority. Booker T. Washington argued that blacks should be trained to move their way up the social pyramid. More training would allow blacks to better serve whites and develop a greater nation. WEB DuBois, on the other hand, argued that blacks were equal to whites and deserved the same liberties and intellectual education to further society. Neither leader, however, was able to help the black community win greater liberties as neither the North or South would pay attention to the plight of black people. At this time, most

It allowed blacks to migrate to the North, integrate with whites, and work in factories, giving them a small, but effective financial base to advance civil rights movements, something they did not have in the past. This money could be used to allow blacks to take greater action in their community, expand organizations such as the NAACP, and spread their message to whites. New deal actions such as the agricultural adjustment acts destroyed sharecropping, and blacks moved to the North as a result. Political ideals and economic opportunity presented by World War 2 accelerated the black movement, gaining support from the white community and beginning to see some gains. Many more blacks migrated to the North and West, the steady financial base that began to build in WW1 grew multifold, and the NAACP grew 10x larger. Many blacks were also able to enroll in the military. Blacks grew very passionate and patriotic at this time, and angered by segregation abroad and the lack of patriotic war jobs in the country, began to rise. The Civil Rights Movement was born when Randolph threatened to march on Washington, causing an embarrassed Roosevelt to ban discrimination in defense jobs and introduce the FEPC, which would finally inspect the hidden, implicit black inequality post reconstruction and fight for their rights. The black voice, FEPC, and northern white

Truman starts a black transition by desegregating the armed forces, and this helps him win reelection. Unlike the 1890s, the court is completely in the blacks’ favor, overturning the “separate but equal” doctrine in the Brown vs. Board decision and raising even more awareness. With the courts on their side, blacks become more bodacious and actively participate through the montgomery bus boycott leading the Court to declare segregation in public transportation unconstitutional. Unlike the Civil War era, with their increased power, they are starting to take more action into their own hands, and whites begin to recognize this. However, similar to the reconstruction era, the South would not respect these decisions, calling the Supreme Court's decisions an abuse of power, so blacks realized that they needed the government to