Their ideas often differed from other black leaders. DuBois’s affiliation with the NAACP attempted to solve the problem through integration. Garvey’s UNIA centered around the idea of blacks helping blacks, attempting to relieve blacks of any dependence on whites. Both men had a lasting impact on generations to come. The beliefs of W.E.B.
I believe that the contribution of Martin Luther King was huge for the Civil Rights Campaign, however many important campaigners were overshadowed by King who possibly got too much credit when it was due elsewhere. King had a giant effect on the progress of the advancement of black civil rights. The first major part he played in improving the social standing of black civilians was in his role governing the Montgomery Bus Boycott between 1955 and 1956. This boycott aimed to achieve, which it eventually did, the desegregation of public buses, which was partly initiated by Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat for a white man when asked to do so, who was then arrested. King was invited to lead the body which was coordinating the boycott, the Montgomery Improvement Association, so he was not responsible for creating and starting off this successful campaign, however his alluring personality and leadership skills helped motivate the campaign brilliantly.
Asa Philip Randolph, a black journalist and educated socialist and railway car porter, Ashley Totten formed the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Trying to establish a voice for these forgotten workers, agrees to fight for the Pullman porter’s cause and form the first black union in America. It was a bold gesture which proved to have a major impact in both labor and race relations in America. Livelihoods and lives would be put at risk in the attempt to gain signatures of the men simply known only as George. Against the staunch opposition of Barton Davis, head of the Pullman railway company and a fierce opponent of both unionization and civil rights initiatives.
King emphasized that the only way to achieve this was through improved civil rights and equality. He also stated that the existing laws and social conditioning were to blame for the discrimination. The location and timing of the speech had a tremendous affect in King’s favor…in an era when racial discrimination and public bigotry towards African Americans in the United States was intensifying; using the Lincoln Memorial as the location was pivotal because Lincoln was the President at the time of the Civil War and had played a leading role in the freeing of slaves; and Washington, DC because it’s the residence of the President and the Congress, which was a direct way of
WW1 was a turning point in increasing racial equality between black and white Americans to a lesser extent. During WW1 black people made contributions to the war effort by moving north to work in factories making war goods. However violence occurred where they moved as competition with the whites for jobs was rife. In the short term with competition and violence intensifying, the Ku Klux Klan restarted in the south and lynchings became common. It would seem that racial equality had not improved, but worsened.
The Constitution, until recently, did not apply to blacks; blacks feel they deserve payments from 310 years of slavery, destruction to their minds and culture. Dr. Martin Luther King's dilemma in the United States was of a different kind. He was torn between his identity as a Black man of African descent and his identity as an American. He urged Americans to judge based on the content of the character not by skin color and also believed in non-violent protests. Martin Luther King Jr’s main perspective during the fight on racism was equality.
People like Charles Wilson, having been denied rights as a result of their race, have been predominantly influential in expanding democracy's reach, because they populate the margins and borders defined by the phrase, "we, the people." By insisting that the discrimination against African Americans in the Armed Forces be considered as far as global democracy was concerned, Wilson delivered a very important message that is very difficult to over-look. These types of efforts are what helped expand the meaning of who is
Washington believed that industrial education would be more effective. When debating the possible solutions to uplift the black race, Washington suggested his viewpoints, Du Bois suggested his viewpoints, and the opposing viewpoints were disputed. Much like today, their philosophies are well discussed on how to end class and racial injustice. Washington was born in slavery in Franklin County, Virginia. He became an influential black leader during the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s.
Blacks started to migrate to the North from the South during the Great Migration to find jobs and for overall better lives. Although the blacks thought that they would have better lives and jobs, they were still exploited. Because blacks were still exploited, Marcus Garvey started the “Back to Africa” movement which gained support from an estimated 2.5 million members. Blacks did not only have a hard time
Additionally, Africans American created an impact on the Great Migration that led to Southern black to move to cities. Du Bois believed that blacks should support the war effort, along with African Americans to strengthen to calls for racial justice. The Great Migration impacted the first World War on African Americans lives by accelerating it, bringing hundreds to thousands blacks of the South to cities of the North. In World War I's outbreak and the drop of European's immigration became a success for blacks by increasing job opportunities, where they received jobs in steel mills, munition plants, and stock yards. Reveals that Southern blacks jumped on trains to move to the cities, hundreds to thousands moved to Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, in the 1915 to 1925.