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