Fairclough Reading:

Booker T Washington:
Booker T Washington was a leader in the civil right movement for blacks. He
had a different approach to the struggle faced in the south for equality. According to
the reading Washington Helped fun and establish the Tuskegee Institute, which was
dedicated to the idea to helping blacks build on basic work skills needed to achieve
in the south. These included teaching them to be cooks and skilled farmers. He
believed that since the blacks of the southern community should strive to
progressive themselves as valuable labor force in the south, since that was the
south main demand. While some may have looked at him as holding the black
community back, such as Bois, it is seen that he had a different approach. He
believed that he could convince and ally with the white southern to establish black
schools, in order to do this they had to make the black community seem not like a
threat to the white establishment. (This is where he is contested). People thought of
him to be holding back because at the time it was a booming industrial scene, and
yet he was encouraging blacks to stay to the basic tasks. Which, for a majority of
black middle classes was a Road Map to success for them. While the economic
scene did change away from small farms. He did not welcome open protest,
although behind the scenes he did fight hard to contest discrimination with powerful
allies such as Roosevelt (who did not listen at times in the case of rape). AS time
would pass tword the end of reconstruction you will see that the method to accept
racial inequality would be rejected with the removal of black politics and heightened
segregation. Booker T Washington may have understood the south way of life and
was able to appeal to the masses, but in order to gain equality assimilation was not
a option.
NAACP
This organization was funded on the idea to completely reject racism. It was formed
to aggressively combat racism through the organization with the best lawyers ect.
This was made possible because it was a product of the progressive are so the
original members were though of higher education such as PHD and Medicine men.
Their firsts conference was the National Conference of the Negro, they set a
agenda to demand the rights given to them by the constitution and to attain equal
education opportunities. Du Bois was able to give the NAACP creditability and
display its dedication to racial equality in the early years when the NAACP was
questionable due to its mainly white leaders in the beginning. Unlike Washington,
Bois was a well-educated Black man from the north, born into a town where racism
was not a common commodity. He was educated with a PHD and believed in
speaking out against racial equality, not assimilating into the plan of get rich like
Washington. He gave the group a political agenda by getting people to understand
their history and demand equality. He instigated the Niagara Movement, which was
the first collect attempt to gain full citizen ship rights in the twentieth century,
through political involvement. However this movement was unable to organize and
get sufficient funding. The Crisis was a magazine created by the NAACP that Bois
took a strong leadership role in. It allowed for the organization to speak directly to
the Negro (edu), and provide funding that was available to them because of

disconnect with the white progressives at the time. While many topics were
covered, Bois made sure that lynching were his strongest pushed topic as he
published the results of the investigations of lynchings in the USA. The Crisis also
boldly advocated self-defense In response to white mobs, in order to put an end to
the deaths. Although, in early campaign years the NAACP did not win a lot of battles
they faced such as attempts to stop segregation and stop racial movies, they were
able to gain attention. They created controversy that forced white people to pay
attention. Things were finally able to move along and force the organization to
grow with the welcoming of James Johnson, who was also a northern born black
with higher education. He was able to bring vital skills like organization, ability to
get along with whites, and motivate black people to join that would lead to a spread
in the organization into the south.