Two Men/Two Ways

Booker T Washington's Job

• educator

• Fireman

• Officer

• Pilot

-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Booker T. Washington

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Was Booker T. Washington a slave

• yes

• no

Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed

• white people are superior

• the telephone is the best invention

• Education for African-Americans is important

• Equal rights for all

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WEB DuBois

• founded the NAACP

• worked in a salt mine at age 9

• was born in Tennessee

• taught job skills to African-Americans

WEB DuBois believed in

• African-Americans needed to be educated and involved in politics

• believed job skills were most important

• being a slave was fun

• having a job was not important

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According to Booker T. Washington, what would help African Americans gain equality?

• Learning skills and trades              
• Holding protests and strikes
• Attending meetings and elections
• Working longer and harder

In 1909, who helped found the NAACP?

• Booker T Washington

• Alexander Graham Bell

• WEB DuBois

• Thomas Edison

WEB DuBois

• taught at Tuskegee Institute until his death

• worked in a salt mine until his death

• was a slave until his death

• continued to fight for equal rights until his death in 1963

Who went to Harvard?

• Washington
• Dubois
• Garvey
• St. Louis