If you had a black ancestors, you were considered black, regardless of your actual color.
Ida B. Wells
They succeeded in passing four constitutional amendments that changed society.
Making Plesst change his seat violated his equal rights under the Constitution.
Booker T. Washington believed that African American economic success and cooperation with whites was important to overcoming racism.
Organizing through local chapters
The women's christian temperance union argued that laws concerning alcohol were necessary to stop problems alcohol was causing their families and society
Tuskegee institute
jeannette rankin