Washington & Du Bois

Multiple Choice

Separation of people by race in public

• Slavery

• Enfranchisement

• Segregation

• Suffrage

Multiple Choice

Legal doctrine that justified segregation

• Separate but equal

• All men are created equal

• We the people

• Equal under the law

Multiple Choice

1896 Supreme Court case that upheld segregation

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Korematsu v. U.S.

• Scopes Trial

​Progressive Era

​ The Progressive Era reformers believed that they could improve society by working together. This idea was also applied to racial equality.

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Today we will look at the work of W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

• ​born into slavery

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• ​started the Tuskegee Institute

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• major work was the Atlanta Compromise

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• ​believed that African Americans would overcome racism by working within the Jim Crow system and excelling at the jobs available to them

​W.E.B Du Bois

• ​born as a freedman in the north

• ​one of the founding members of the NAACP

• major works included the Souls of Bl​ack Folk, Black Reconstruction

• ​First African American to received PhD from Harvard

• ​Believed that racial equality could only be achieved through equal opportunity and education

Multiple Choice

I was born as a slave in Virginia.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

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I was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

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My major works include "The Souls of Black Folk" and "Black Reconstruction."

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Multiple Choice

My major works include the Atlanta Compromise

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Multiple Choice

I was born a freedman in Massachusetts.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Multiple Choice

I founded the Tuskegee Institute.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Multiple Choice

I believed African Americans should work within the Jim Crow system and that racial equality would happen over time.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Multiple Choice

I believed that racial equality could only be achieved through equal opportunities in education for African Americans.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Multiple Choice

What most closely matches Booker T. Washington's argument described in lines 1-7.

• Only classical education is important.

• It is important to receive a well-rounded education.

• African Americans should prepare for the jobs that are available to them.

Multiple Choice

What most closely matches Du Bois's argument described in lines 8-16.

• Only classical education is important.

• Everyone has the right to study what they want.

• African Americans should only prepare for the jobs that are available to them.

Multiple Choice

What most closely matches Washington's argument described in lines 17-23.

• Don't worry about legal rights, work hard and make economic progress.

• The right to vote is the most important right.

• Voting rights are more important than economic opportunity.

Multiple Choice

What most closely matches Du Bois's argument described in lines 24-32.

• Economic progress will overcome segregation.

• Home ownership does not matter in a racist system.

• There is no point fighting against racial segregation.

Open Ended

Exit Ticket: How do lines 33-35 summarize the main argument of this poem?

(Possible Sentence Starter: In lines 33-35, the author states . . . This shows that . . . )