http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_fisk.html
This is the story of W.E.B. Du Bois challenging the white president of Fisk University. Du Bois returned to the university as an alumnus, and was disgusted with what he saw. The president wanted to take a donation from a Northern foundation, but had to stress the Jim Crow laws. Du Bois, unlike Booker T. Washington, did not want people to submit to the Jim Crow laws. This is exactly what Martin Luther King preached. He said that an unjust law is no law at all. Du Bois and King had very similar views.
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