AA civil rights key people

Abraham Lincoln

1861-65 president, issued emancipation proclamation , yet was assassinated on the 14th April 1865

Andrew Johnson

president after Lincoln, 1865-67, he had a lenient approach to reconstruction and allowed a return to pre-war relations. Impeached

Ulysses S Grant

president from 1867, more sympathetic towards reconstruction. Targeted the KKK, believed his role to was to enforce civil rights

Charles Sumner

radical in senate, that along with Stevens called for reconstruction to be controlled by the North. Death slowed reconstruction

Thaddeus Stevens

radical, in favour of reconstruction controlled by the North, along with Sumner. His death slowed progress

Frederick Douglass

early advocate for anti-slavery. called for equality and legal rights, but by 1865 was old and lacked the energy for the struggle

Blanche K Bruce

first black senator to sit a full term in 1875 from Mississippi.

Rutherford B Hayes

president 1577-1881. part of gilded age period his election led to the end of reconstruction. ended military occupation of the south

Grover Cleveland

president 1885-1889.part of gilded age period. Openly racist, boasted to have never eaten with a black person

Booker T Washington

civil rights leader, set up Tuskegee institution for education. Accommodationalist. 1895 Atlanta compromise

Ida B Wells

integrationist,thrown of a first class carriage on a train, wrote many articles against lynching. helped start the NAACP

WEB Du Bois

first black academic, founded NAACp in 1908. separatist

general Amos T Ackerman

attorney general used the army to arrest members of the KKK and forced others to flee

nat love

Mary Fields

Bass Reeves

Warren G Harding

president

Franklin D Roosevelt

president, invited Booker T washington to the White House, yet faced backlash to backed off civil rights Less hostile, shift of views democrats

Paul Robeson

black actor and singer and civil rights activist

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, intervened when Marian Anderson wasn’t allowed to sing in the constitution hall so helped her to sing at the Lincoln memorial

Hiram Evans

leader or ‘imperial wizard’ of the second KKK

Governor Huey P Long

only southern politician that wasn’t a segregationist

Theodore Bilbo

Governor and senator, opponent to civil rights

Eugene Talmadge

Governor, anti civil rights, attacked integrated education

Jessie Owens

black American who won 4 gold medal at the 1936 olympics

Hettie McDaniel

the first black person to win an Oscar for gone with the wind

Arthur M Williams

first black person to be elected to congress after the reconstruction