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The NAACP
The Fight for Freedom
Early Leaders
The philosophy of the civil rights movement shifted from the "accommodationist" approach of Booker T. Washington to the military advocacy of W.E.B. Du Bois. These forces converged to help create the "New Negro Movement" of the 1920s, which promoted a renewed sense of racial pride, cultural self-expression, economic independence, and progressive politics. |