Question

How did WWI and its aftermath provide African Americans with opportunities? Discuss W.E.B. DuBois and the rise of the NAACP. Discuss Marcus Garvey and the rise of Garveyism. 5-7 sentences for answer

Answer 1

For most of the African American soldiers, serving in World War I had provided them a broaden social , political, geographical and cultural acceptance in the society, As they received the opportunity to travel the different locations of the country, and more than 200000 African-American soldiers served in other countries to various part of the globe, had really improved the life experience to these soldiers.

NAACP was founded on 12^th Feb 1909 and it is considered to be the oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil right organization in the United States. NAACP was mainly constituted in response to the increasing horrific incidents of lynching and the race riots which resulted in the year 1908 in Springfield. Following the racial violence against the Afro-Americans, Mary White Ovington, and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the descendants of abolitionists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Almost 60 individuals out of them 7 were Afro-American including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell signed a declaration which was released on the occasion of the centennial of Lincoln’s birth.