Fill in the Blanks Early Civil Rights Online version S8H7 The student will evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia between 1877 and 1918. by Aaron Stinson 1 rights Assembly work School tenth Plessy Ferguson NAACP separation talented equal inequality Jim General desturction segregated Crow Disenfranchisement vocational separated In its 1896 v . decision , the U . S . Supreme Court ruled that public places could be by race . This was the separatebut - doctrine that lasted until 1954 . During this period , Georgia passed laws that public facilities such as railroad cars , parks , and theaters . Henry McNeal Turner served in the helping establish the Georgia Public System that we have today W . E . B . Du Bois was one of the most important African - American activists during the first half of the 20th century . He co - founded the and supported Pan - Africanism . He demand the of . Du Bois believed the way to beat prejudice was for college educated African American , the , to lead the fight against it . Booker T . Washington believed equality could be achieved through ( work based ) education . He accepted social . He felt African Americans could advance faster through hard than demanding equal is the idea of preventing one group of people from voting or taking part in the democratic process .