Thomas Moss had a tremendous impact on blacks. Moss had achieved economic success by opening up people’s grocery, and that made him a threat to whites. Colored people were tried of seeing others getting beaten, murdered, and lynched. “Tell my people to go west there is no justice for them here” He said in many rivers to cross episode 4. Some African American stared to leave the south and migrate to the west to Oklahoma, Arkansas and so on.

Booker T. Washington’s was born into slavery; He was the president of Tuskegee Institute. Washington’s believed that racism and prejudice would end once blacks acquired useful vocational education, developmental trade and build agriculture. That would develop respect over. time. W.E.D Du Bois was the first