Alonzo Herndon, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois (37c)

-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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The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?

• Assimilation                        
• Civil Rights
• Segregation         
• Desegregation

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Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed

• black people are superior

• the telephone is the best invention

• Education for African-Americans is important

• Equal rights for all

Booker T Washington

• was born rich

• equality for all

• believed education was not important

• was principal of the Tuskegee Institute

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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In 1895, DuBois became the first African American to receive a doctoral degree from the University of

• Princeton

• Harvard

• Yale

• Oxford

Why did Booker T. Washington believe it was important to learn a trade?

• It allowed black people to own their own business.

• It guaranteed immediate civil rights for black people.

• It made black people more employable to white business owners.

• It offered a simple way for black people to take out government loans.

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Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington’s approach to civil rights?

• compromise and patience

• persistence and noncompliance

• education reform and voting rights

• non-violent protest and political action

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Which Black leader believed Blacks had already earned the rights of whites and demand that Blacks be treated as equals?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Marcus Garvey