Question

Identify two key figures or organizations in the various movements for the expansion of civil rights and their accomplishments.

Answer 1

Booker T. Washington: he was able to coalesce black intellectuals and middle class figures with white political and social activist sympathizers into a progressive force for the betterment of African American and the education and training of their elites. He founded the Tuskeegee Institute, one of the first institution of higher education for African Americans in the USA. He also secretly used funds to legally challenge and eliminate segregationist laws in the South.

Thurgood Marshall: he was the first African American justice of the Supreme Court. He won several cases as part of the Legal defense and Education Fund of the NACCP. His most resounding victory was Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, a case that effectively ended racial segregation in public schools.