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Throughout black people’s progression over 00 years, black groups played vital roles in order to achieve justice needed for their causes; some consisted of individuals with communities backing their ideas, such as Booker T Washington and his respect earned for equality mandate, then later transforming into huge mass movements calling on the government for intervention for equal rights, namely Martin Luther’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SSLC) and Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE). In order to gain the inclusion that they desired, black groups ideas and mandates changed over the decades, reflecting the needs for the time that they were presented with. Starting from within the reconstruction era, with Booker T Washington and W.E.B Du Bois first spreading their grievances and the solutions they thought would enable black progression sueing the turbulant times they faced, with black people being free from slavery but withheld basic resepct under Jim Crow laws tormenting the south. Historians Gardner Booker T and Pero Dagbovi both commented on Booker T Washington’s ideas, Gardner commending Washington’s successes of the Alabama Institute and his

moral ideas of earning respect from white counterparts, whereas Dagbovi opposed, signalling that respect didn’t need to be earned based on ones skin colour. Once the ideas were established of how to go about progression, these groups grew into proper organisations like the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) in order to actively change their situation, and used their status after 930 within the legal framework of America. After gaining more through legality, such as the Plessy v Ferguson case, black groups moved into movements on great scales, mobilizing hundreds of people to protest for stronger equality throughout the 950s and 60s looking for a cultural change in America, some through peaceful protesting and others through defence and intimidation, such as the Black Panthers. Gaining rights took decades for black groups, and they evolved according to the society in which they inhabited, from introducing opposition in 870 to Jim Crow laws through the spreading of ideas and raising awareness of inequalities, adapting eventually in 960 by mobilising thousands of people who demanded change after over 00 years of oppression. (360)