United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger."
Booker T. Washington was the leader in the early 1900s that supported the idea that African Americans should temporarily accept inequality's while working to gain job skills and obtain economic independence.