AAS 118 Lecture 1: AAS study chapter 17

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: African-American Studies
• Course: AAS 118
• Professor: Ogunbowale Mopelolade

Document Summary

National association for the advancement of colored people founded 1909. Naacp was determined that black citizen should enjoy full political and civil rights relied on the judicial and legislative systems. Naacp won first legal victory in 1915 when the supreme court overturned oklahoma"s grandfather clause in guinn v. united states. But poll taxes and literacy test continued to disfranchise black citizens anti-lynching law: dyer bill:passed in the house of representative in 1922, blocked in the senate. Du bois become director of publicity and research of naacp edited the naacp publication called the crisis. Denounced white racism demanded that black people stand up for civil rights he would prove violence, but he would not tolerate mistreatment either. Washington versus the naacp many naacp leaders despised( ) washington worked on subvert the naacp saw du bois as a puppet for white people.