This meant that a black man had just as much say as a white man in a court of law and was protected from prejudice and racial segregation as of the 1875 Civil Rights Act. These developments caused by the Civil War were helped by presidents Lincoln and Johnson. Lincoln believed in equal racial rights and the abolition of slavery, as did Johnson; except when Johnson became president he hindered the development of black Civil Rights because although he encouraged the 13th amendment; he was a white supremacist and was not in support for equal racial rights and in 1866 tried to veto the Civil Rights Bill. This
He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. He was so intelligent in fact that many Northerners found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave. Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He also wrote several autobiographies describing his experiences including his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave that we read for class, which became extremely influential in its support for abolition. After the Civil War, Douglass remained active in the United States’ struggle to reach its potential as a "land of the free".
He became “a classic example of the guilty pro-slavery slaveholder. He doesn't know how to free them. He doesn't know how to go to emancipation. Instead he develops a highly intricate theory of how he's going to use slavery to save black people. He's going to ameliorate their conditions, he's going to make their slavery on his plantations so effective, so good, such an even joyous form of labor, that he will be doing God's work by improving slavery” (Blight).
DuBois, describing the ideas of B.T.Washington, doesn’t see the reality, because he believes that the problem of accepting African Americans by the society is a problem of the whole nation, and that the whole nation should make an effort for equality. His main idea is that accepting African Americans in the socity as citizens with civil rights is a business of both sides: those who accept and those who are being accepted: “On the whole the distinct impression left by Mr Washington’s propaganda is that his future depends on his own efforts“. W.E.B. DuBois critisizes Washington, but he doesn’t count the fact that not all the social groups can realize that African Americans are not submitted anymore and that they have full civil rights now. While Mr Washington tells thst the success of African Americans depends on their own efforts, W.E.B.
Even though whites were looked at as the superior race because of slavery, there was still a difference between poor whites and rich whites. That’s the impression I got from him about justice difference between black and people of color and whites. Fredrick Douglass would agree with the statement, “ No one can be enslaved if they have the ability to read, write and think. I feel as if only someone who cannot think for him or her self can be enslaved. Frederick Douglass was a man of using his mind.
By submissive they meant that they were to accept to continue to work as a means of being useful to the white society. Many blacks rejected Washington’s idea of submission and were then influenced by Du Bois. Du Bois rejected the viewpoint of Booker T. Washington proclaiming that he was convicting their race to physical work and everlasting
Du Bois proposed a plan that set him right under, if not with, Washington. One may argue that DuBois essay in his collection The Souls of Black Folk with the title “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.” critiquing Washington’s thoughts on how blacks should go about gaining equality showed that black men during this time was in fact in different classes or thought more of them selves depending on their upbringing and brought forth different opinions of what they thought was right for their own race to do to be seen as equal to whites or be given the freedoms that law intended for them to have , but I agree with W.E.B. Du Bois's strategy of the pursuit of intellect through higher education in order to gain first-class citizenship for the African American race. In Washington’s speech he basically tells the audience that blacks are better off in the position whites have forced upon them and they should be thankful and assume the working positions that most whites are offering them as field hands, maids, servants,
John Brown was a driven man, an abolitionist who was relentless in his opposition to slavery. Ultimately, he justified violence as a means to realize what he considered the most noble of goals – the destruction of slavery. Like his Calvinist father before him, Brown considered slavery a moral blight. But unlike many other white abolitionists, Brown mixed easily with African Americans, prompting Frederick Douglass, the most famous 19th century black abolitionist, to write that: Though a white gentleman, he is in sympathy a black man and as deeply interested in our cause as though his own soul had been pierced by the iron of slavery. In 1849, John Brown settled his family in the black community of North Elba in the New York Adirondacks.
The liberal philosophy, created by George Washington Cable, “challenged the Redeemer’s philosophy that the South must have ‘honest’ government before it could aspire to ‘free government, and maintained that there could be neither free nor honest government without equal rights and protection for all citizens” (46). The conservative philosophy acknowledged that, “Negroes belonged in a subordinate role, but denied that the subordinates had to be ostracized […] segregated, or publically humiliated.” (48). The conservative philosophy was undoubtedly aristocratic and paternalistic (49). It drew on the differences of class amongst the whites by associating the disgust of black and white contact with the attitudes of lower-class whites (50) as well as the need of political Negro support. The Southern radical philosophy was strongly based on equalitarianism.
Professor Henderson History 130 6 December 2013 Précis Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, is best known for his tall hat and abolishing slavery. Lincoln seemed to be a man of the people. Appealing to the majority and the minority when the circumstances called for it. Although he did free the slaves, that was not his intention and the blacks knew that. Abraham Lincoln based his ideas and beliefs from former president Henry Clay.