Transcript Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois

APUSH: Spiconardi
 Bio:
 Born in the Virginia
(South) to a white father
and a slave mother
 Founded Tuskegee
University in Alabama
 Many presidents sought
his counsel on racial
issues in America
 First African-American
ever invited to the White
House (1901)
 Bio
 Born in Massachusetts (North)
 First African American to
receive a Masters Degree and
Ph.D. from Harvard University
 Helped form the National
Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP)
 Views
 Equality for blacks will take a long time
 The best way to gain equality is through economic success
 Money = Social and Political Influence
 Learn a trade to earn money
 Until then
 Live in harmony and appease whites
 Accept segregation
 Don’t fight too hard
 Confrontation would be disastrous for blacks
Booker T.
Who is this
white man?
 Views
 Wanted equality immediately
 Urged blacks to end segregation through protest
 Did not believe racial harmony was possible as blacks
were being lynched and their political rights denied
 Challenge and question whites on all grounds
 Forget trade/skill education!
 Blacks deserve the same high level and liberal arts education
as whites
 The Talented Tenth
 A collection of essays in
which Du Bois states
 One in ten black men would
rise as leaders of the race
 They would help reduce crime
in the black community
"The Negro race, like all races, is going to be
saved by its exceptional men. The problem of
education, then, among Negroes must first of
all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the
problem of developing the Best of this race
that they may guide the Mass away from the
contamination and death of the Worst.”
 Mission: “to ensure the political, educational, social,
and economic equality of rights of all persons and to
eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”
 Uses the legal system to fulfill its mission
 Jamaican-born activist
who supported PanAfricanism
 Championed black
separatism
 Urged followers to move
to Africa
 Believed people of African
descent would never be
treated justly in white-run
countries
 Advocated for the
economic empowerment
of blacks