Explain how the civil rights act was a second emancipation

Kennedy to issue. As the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln to free all the slaves in states at war with the Union on January 1, 1863, the Second Emancipation Proclamation was designed to end racial segregation.

booker t. washington was an educator who established the tuskegee institute. washington argued that african americans should learn trades that would offer them the opportunity to be progressive citizens. instead of fighting against discrimination, washington argued that african americans should use their education and knowledge to become self-sufficient in american society and not in competition with white americans.

w.e.b du bois was the founder of the niagara movement and later the naacp, du bois disagreed with washington. he argued that african americans should consistently fight for racial equality.

ida b. wells was a journalist who wrote about the horrors of lynching in the south. wells work could be considered muckraking as it led to the development of the anti-lynching campaign.