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             movement. Ex-slave Booker T. Washington put his newly acquired freedom to.
             use when he started a black industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. He taught.
             his students useful trades so they could eventually gain economic equality.
             However, Washington stopped short of promoting social equality. In a famous.
             speech in Atlanta, Washington hinted to his belief in gradualism: "In all things.
             that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand.
             in all things essential to mutual progress." W.E.B Du Bois, founder of the.
             National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was.
             just the opposite of Washington. Du Bois demanded complete equality for.
             blacks, economic as well as social. He believed in the immediate integration of.
             blacks into mainstream American life, regardless of the consequences. In the.
             mist of the progress for the black race, women suffrage arose to try to win the.
             ballot just recently won by blacks. Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, women.
             suffragists formed the National American Women's Suffrage Association.
             (NAWSA) in 1890. Suffragists under Catt threatened to discharge their.
             traditional duties as homemakers and mothers in the increasingly public world.
             of the city. Ironically with all the women's suffrage bickering, women did not.
             receive the ballot until 1920 by the 19th Amendment. The civil rights movement.
             of the late 1800's and early 1900's succeeded in "breaking the ice" for blacks.
             and also in leading the way to women's triumph in 1920. However, this civil.
             rights movement did not accomplish its goals to the fullest due to the lack of.


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