E.B. Du Bois, demanded the same as the original members of the Niagara Movement founded in 1905:.
-Freedom of speech and criticism.
-An unfettered and unsubsidized press.
-Manhood suffrage [note, no "womanhood"].
-The abolition of all caste distinctions based simply on race and color.
-The recognition of the principle of human brotherhood as a practical .
present creed.
-The recognition of the highest and best training as the monopoly of no .
class or race.
-A belief in the dignity of labor.
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Thurgood and his brother were brought up so that they would not have to deal with the harsh reality of the Jim Crow laws as much by keeping them around the securities of family and friends in West Baltimore. They only got to see very little of the atrocities around them as youth. This was soon to change. At the age of two the Marshall family moved to Harlem. About 1910, Harlem was beginning to gain hosts of different types of black people, different cultures, politics and talents. So many of the southern blacks were longing to escape the hand of Jim Crow. Unfortunately, Norma's parents fell ill so they had to return to Baltimore. Massive racial changes took place in their 5-year stint in New York.
Beyond the major segregation and racial hostility that was dividing Baltimore, He had to stay with his family had to stay with his mother's relatives. This is where daily activities like shopping and such changed. Though the neighborhoods were predominately black, the store owners were nearly all Jewish, and the only ones that could enter stores were those blacks that could "pass for white." Growing up in an error like this with the family he lived with he learned a lot out of life. His grandparents, uncles and aunts were like his parents in that they believed in the strength and the characteristics of a black and the value of education, career and accomplishing goals. These attributes were instilled within him from day one.
