Early Civil Rights Campaigns

Civil Rights are the rights that give you freedom and make you equal to other citizens.

Lesson starter:

Write down some examples of what you think are Civil Rights.

• The right to vote• The right to a good

education• The right to a decent job• The right to equal wages• The right not to be

discriminated against• Etc.

Examples

The Problem: Black Americans are not being treated as equal to

White Americans

Solution 1

Black people should try and become as educated and well

trained as White people.

This will allow them to be treated as equals with White Americans.

Solution 2

Black people should not have to educate themselves

to be thought of as equal. White Americans must give Blacks equal rights straight

away. Or Blacks should protest.

Solution 3

Black people should leave America and return to Africa where they can set up their own country and enjoy freedom. Black people should not have to be ashamed of their race.

Solution 1

• Booker T Washington

• Believed education of Black Americans was the key to achieving equality

‘Show the white man you can work hard and they will see that the Black man is a respectable person’

Solution 2

• W.E.B. Du Bois• Believed in

protesting for Civil Rights

• Did not think Blacks should have to prove anything to white people‘until we get these rights we will

never cease to protest’

Solution 3

• Marcus Garvey• Blacks should go

back to Africa and run their own country

• He even set up his own travel line ‘The Black Star Line’ to take people back to Africa‘Why should we ask to be

given Civil Rights? Black is beautiful!’