Transcript washingtonanddubois2

February 11, 2014
 Goal: Examine the role of minorities
and women in society and their struggle
for a say and change.
 QOD: What were the two major points
of view about how to improve African
American life in the US?
 Homework: Finish Follow up
In the 1900s
 90% of African
Americans still lived in
the South
 Most of this group
worked as Sharecroppers
 The South instituted Jim
Crow Laws to keep the
races separate, at the
same time oppressing the
rights of African
Americans
 The KKK was created to use terror tactics to control
the behavior of African Americans
 Lynchings became common place
Booker T. Washington
 Born in 1856 as a slave
 Attended Hampton Institute
 Became Principal at Tuskegee
 Trained teachers
 President for life
 Taught “accommodation”
 “Conservative”
WEB DuBois
 Northerner, born in MA in
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1868
Harvard Educated
Co-founder of NAACP
Socialist
Editor of The Crisis
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Encouraged agitation
Provides stories to encourage
pride in the African American
community
 Believed in the “Talented
Tenth”
 “Radical”
 http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/bf10.so
cst.us.indust.bookert/booker-t-washington-andweb-du-bois-the-conflict/
Major points
Underline major points
Circle keywords or phrases that are confusing or unknown to you
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Use a question mark for questions that you have during the
reading. Be sure to write your questions.
Use and exclamation mark for things that surprise you and briefly
note what caught your attention
Draw an arrow when you make a connection to something inside
the text or to an idea or experience outside the text. Note your
connection.
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Write EX when the author provides an example.
Number arguments, important ideas, or key details, and write
words or phrases that restate them
Homework
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What was Booker T. Washington's attitude regarding civil rights?
Why did he empasize education to achieve these goals? Explain.
Washington has been a very controversial figure. Some historians say
that he was a sell-out who kissed up to white people; others say he
was realistic about the situation in the South, and tied to avoid
inciting white hostility. Yet, Washington was a very popular figure in
the early 1900s. To what do you attribute his popularity?
Why does DuBois (and other black intellectuals) critique
Washington? Are these critiques fair? Why or why not?
Why might some of Washington’s supporters say that DuBois didn’t
understand what life was like in the South? Based on what he wrote,
do you think DuBois was clueless about what was happening in the
South?
Based on these documents, who do you think was a stronger advocate
for the rights of African-Americans: Booker T. Washington or W.E.B.
Dubois?