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===Origins of the Legal Battle===
Almost immediately, Black activists began to battle for the restoration of their civil rights. In ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y3GT6YV/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B06Y3GT6YV&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e9fcd64d0d025c6fc7db1af301f30e32 Defining the Struggle]'', Susan Carle argues that this began in the 1880s with groups like the Afro-American League, under the leadership of Howard Law School graduate, T. Thomas Fortune, pressuring the state through legal test cases. The strategy was to utilize incidents of racial discrimination as “tests” to bring to the courts to get them to rule on the legality of segregation. In the 1890s, another organization, the Afro-American Council continued this strategy. However, with the ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0700618473/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0700618473&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=9e0b9a052f542b936d11bc2da462ee5d Plessy v. Ferguson]'' decision of 1896, it seemed things would get a bit more difficult.
===Early Twentieth Century Movements===
===Bibliography===
Susan Carle, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y3GT6YV/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B06Y3GT6YV&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e9fcd64d0d025c6fc7db1af301f30e32 Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915]
''(New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Rawn James, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596916060/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1596916060&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5bb3bfaa0f550a145836b04d6ec5175f Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation]'' (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013)
Blair L.M. Kelley, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080787101X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=080787101X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=f1a8365b30b8fed4cf348c2cf20e2aa7 Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy V. Ferguson]'' (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
Wesley Hogan, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807859591/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807859591&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a0825751f978bb679ea0cb0cf149a8be Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America]'' (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).{{MediaWiki:AmNative}} [[Category:Wikis]][[Category:United States History]] [[Category: Civil Rights History]] [[Category:20th Century History]] [[Category:Political History]] [[Category:African American History]]
