There are different nationalist philosophies but the principles of all Black nationalist ideologies are self-determination-that is, separation, or independence, from white society. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, Blacks in America would fight for equality in the Civil rights movements. This was in a effort to bring about black self-determination. This effort was an attempt to counteract against the injustices of the status quo, and out of it the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954) was initiated. Many …show more content…
She helped organize the National Association of Colored Women. She was opposed to the policy of accommodation advocated by Booker T. Washington and had personal difficulties with W.E.B. Du Bois. In 1909, she helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Ida b wells goals and tactic had everything to do with black self-determinism because she expressed the truth in a heavily segregated south. Her life story shows the struggles that she went through to get the black voice heard and how she tried to create a better environment for black to live in and for the white community to understand the hardships of the their neighboring …show more content…
In 1951, the federal government prosecuted Du Bois for his affiliation with the Communist Party. A judge eventually threw out the case. Disillusioned with the United States, he officially joined the Communist Party in 1961 and moved to Ghana, where he renounced his American citizenship more than a year later. Du bois is an example of self determination because he challenged the status quo of what is expectable in black community and was not afraid to disagree with Booker T Washington, saying that black should not stand for or be interested in being sub servant to white communities. He knew that changing the right of black would take some rebellion and did some with his writing and