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The mid twentieth century

By the start of the 20th century, African Americans' condition was quite dismal. Race

inequality was a part of daily life even beyond the South. African American leaders and

intellectuals differed on the correct way. Some, like as Booker T. Washington, believed that

short-term acceptance of inequality and segregation would enable African Americans to

concentrate on their attempts to improve educational and social standing until whites are

compelled to recognize them as equals (Williams, 2018). However, W. E. B. Du Bois defended a

more confrontational strategy and in 1909 established as a rallying point for achieving equality,

(NAACP) which is an organization that protects colored people.

In its early years, liberal whites controlled the group, but African Americans took over its

activities in the 1920s. Southern states opted to set up universities for blacks instead of allowing

them to enter white government schools. Although this rule extended professional and graduate

education possibilities for African Americans in fields such as law and medical sciences by

demanding the participation of States in the provision of institutes, it still permitted the existence

of segregated universities and colleges (Klein, 2021). Many people, in particular African

Americans, took this problem of squeezing a certain ethnic group well. Different groups needed

to raise their voice to this prejudice and therefore test if their voice was heard.
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Reference

Williams, B. (2018). “That we may live”: Pesticides, plantations, and environmental racism in

the United States South. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(1-2), 243-

267.

Klein, D. (2021). Their Slavery Was Her Freedom: Racism and the Beginning of the End of

Coverture. Duq. L. Rev., 59, 106.