AMH 2020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Black Pride, White Supremacy, Palmer Raids

• School: University of Florida
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMH 2020
• Professor: All

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Civil war reconstruction failed to assure the full rights of citizens to the freed slaves. By the 1890s, ku klux klan terrorism, lynching"s, racial-segregation laws, and voting restrictions made a mockery of the rights guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, which were passed after the civil war. Advocated accommodation do things that will not piss of white people. Argued for african americans to first improve themselves through education, industrial training, and business ownership. Washington designed, developed, and guided the tuskegee institute. It became a powerhouse of african-american education and political influence in the united states. He used the hampton institute, with its emphasis on agricultural and industrial training, as his model. Washington argued that african americans must concentrate on educating themselves, learning useful trades, and investing in their own businesses. Hard work, economic progress, and merit, he believed, would prove to whites the value of blacks to the.