Washington and DuBois Quiz

Where was Booker T. Washington born?

• Franklin County, Virginia

• Great Barrington, Massachusetts

• Nashville, Tennessee

• Hampton, Virginia

What was the name of the book in which Booker T. Washington advocated for Black uplift through 'self-improvement' and 'dignifying common labor'?

• Up From Slavery

• Industrial Education for the Negro

• The Philadelphia Negro

• The Souls of Black Folk

What did W.E.B. Du Bois describe as 'double consciousness'?

• The cognitive dissonance of being Black in America

• The revelation of the other world

• The tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity

• The sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others

Where did W.E.B. Du Bois get his Ph.D.?

• Berlin

• Wayland Seminary

• Harvard University

• Fisk University

What did Du Bois propose in his 1903 book, 'The Negro Problem'?

• The Talented Tenth

• The Atlanta Compromise

• The Philadelphia Negro

• The Souls of Black Folk

What did Booker T. Washington emphasize for Black Americans to gain acceptance and economic stability in society?

• Political agitation

• Higher education in the humanities

• Black economic freedom through skills and labor

• Immediate social and political change

What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois help found in 1909?

• The Niagara Movement

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• The Atlanta Compromise

• The Philadelphia Negro

What did Booker T. Washington urge Black people in the south to do in his book 'Up From Slavery'?

• Obey segregation laws and show deference to white authorities

• Demand immediate social and political change

• Agitate for civil rights

• Challenge Jim Crow segregation

What did Du Bois describe as 'a peculiar sensation' in his concept of 'double consciousness'?

• Measuring one's soul by the tape of a world

• Feeling two-ness

• Being a sort of seventh son

• Being American and Black

What did Booker T. Washington emphasize in his 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech?

• Black economic stability and safety from racial violence

• Demand for civil rights

• Immediate confrontation between Black and white people

• Integration into the larger white community