Civil Rights in New South

Booker T. Washington believed that the best interests of African American people couldbe achieved through education and learning work related skills. He believed that________________ and _____________ would gradually win respect and acceptance.

• education and hard work

• acts of violence and force

• silence and submission

Booker T. Washington believed in _______ equality for African Americans. 

• no (no equality)

• gradual, slow

• immediate

Given what you know about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, how did W.E.B. Du Bois beliefs for equality differ from Booker T. Washington's beliefs? 

• Washington believed in gradual through education and work. Dubois believed in immediate equality in all areas.

• Dubois believed in gradual through education and work. Washington believed in immediate equality in all areas.

• Dubois encouraged peaceful protests, while Washington encouraged loud, sometimes violent methods

Identify the former slave who was emancipated at the end of the Civil War and founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, one of the most successful black owned insurance businesses in the nation.

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Alonzo Herndon

• Martin Luther King Jr.

What was controversial about Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromisespeech given at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition?

• He advised African Americans to improve their status through hard work rather than "agitating" for social equality.

• He called on African Americans to leave America and emigrate to Africa.

• He called on African Americans to "rise up" against segregation

Alonzo Herndon was born a slave but died a millionaire.  He owned a barber shop and an Insurance company.  Herndon can be described as an _____________. 

• Supremacist

• Entrepreneur

• Employee

He believed the educated , Talented Tenth, African Americans must use their education and training to challenge inequality.

• Washington

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Alonzo Herndon

Founder of the Niagara Movement (1905) (a protest group). Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) to enforce what is known as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Alonzo Herndon

• Washington

W.E.B. did not experience racism as a child which influenced him to believe in standing up and demanding equal rights.  W.E.B. was born and raised in what area of the United States? 

• The North

• The South

• Georgia