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For African Americans, Jim Crow laws encompassed and affected every part of American life. The racial slur synonymous with negro and the laws used to discriminate against them. Two of the most recognizable figures advocating against of Jim Crow were Booker T. Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Though they lived through different times, they both shared the same goal of bettering circumstances of the African Americans people. While sharing a same common goal, Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. had different approaches to confronting the color line, each approach with its positive and negative attributes.
Booker T. Washington’s beliefs surrounding the improvement of African Americans are shown in his “Atlanta Compromise.” According to Washington, the way to advance the standing of African Americans was for them to make themselves indispensable to their community. Once they had established themselves as a race, their importance would be realized and they would......

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