EARLY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS

22 May 2024
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Marcus Garvey advocated for the Niagara Movement, which fought for civil rights for African Americans. Pan Africanism, which was a movement to unify all people of African descent. the NAACP, which worked to end segregation and violence against African Americans. the Talented Tenth, which was the idea that well-educated individuals would lead the fight for equality.
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Pan Africanism, which was a movement to unify all people of African descent.
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Which leader helped to form the Niagara movement? W. E. B. Du Bois Booker T. Washington Marcus Garvey Mary White Ovington
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Which best describes the outcome of the 1913 case Guinn v. U.S.? The case represented a failure for the NAACP because it supported a law that limited the voting rights of formerly enslaved individuals. The case represented a failure for the NAACP because it overturned a law that guaranteed equal voting rights for all Americans. The case was a victory for the NAACP because it overturned a law that would have limited African American voting rights. The case was a victory for the NAACP because it supported an existing law that upheld African American voting rights.
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The case was a victory for the NAACP because it overturned a law that would have limited African American voting rights.
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In the early 1900s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People strongly pushed for federal legislation to ban the practice of lynching. overturn Jim Crow laws. limit segregation. limit activist organizations.
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ban the practice of lynching.
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Which best describes the purpose of the Niagara Movement? to support legislation that banned the practice of lynching to support social and political rights for African Americans to encourage African Americans to move back to Africa to encourage African Americans to adopt the accommodationist approach
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to support social and political rights for African Americans
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While Booker T. Washington believed in an accommodationist approach to racial equality, W. E. B. Du Bois believed in: the patient approach to civil rights. actively working to achieve civil rights for all. separate but equal rights for African Americans. the "back to Africa" movement.
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actively working to achieve civil rights for all.
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Following the Springfield race riots of 1908, journalist William English Walling called on his fellow Americans to "revive the abolitionist spirit," which led to the development of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Black Nationalism Movement. Niagara Movement. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a sociologist and activist who: fought for the political and social rights of African Americans. founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. supported the accommodationist approach. supported the "back to Africa" movement.
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fought for the political and social rights of African Americans.
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Which best describes a major problem faced by the Niagara Movement? lack of organizational structure lack of support from other activist groups lack of a strong leadership figure lack of support from the general public
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lack of organizational structure
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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 is expressing that temporarily accepting discrimination will not lead to equality. submitting to discrimination will help end inequality. fighting to end inequality could offend some people. working toward equality for all is an important pursuit.
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temporarily accepting discrimination will not lead to equality.
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Which of the following is one way that Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans could achieve equality? through working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by challenging discriminatory laws in court through education and learning job skills by supporting black nationalism
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through education and learning job skills
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Why did W. E. B. Du Bois call Marcus Garvey "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race in America"? Garvey's views promoted African unity. Garvey's views promoted integration. Garvey's views promoted racial separation. Garvey's views promoted African pride.
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Garvey's views promoted racial separation.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded as a direct response to Booker T. Washington's accommodation policy. the Springfield race riots. Marcus Garvey's black nationalism movement. the magazine The Crisis.
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the Springfield race riots.
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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. helped him decide to move to Central America permanently to advocate on their behalf. pushed him to join forces with W. E. B. Du Bois and the Niagara Movement. motivated him to move home to Jamaica, where he founded the Black Star Line.
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inspired his support of Pan Africanism and his political activism.
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Which of the following best describes one reason that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed? to start a "back to Africa" movement to make slavery illegal in the United States to stop violence against African Americans to form an African American political party
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to stop violence against African Americans