African American Leaders

What was a potential strategy for African American leaders to make progress without antagonizing white people?

• Withdraw from political and social equality

• Establish a separate state

• Focus on improving education

• Challenge authority directly

What was Booker T. Washington famous for?

• Gaining the confidence of white Americans and his moral authority among African Americans

• Leading a military campaign

• Writing a famous novel

• Inventing a new technology

What did Booker T. Washington stress as important for African Americans?

• Relying on their own efforts to make progress

• Moving to a different country

• Avoiding education

• Depending on others for success

According to Booker T. Washington, what was key to progress?

• Demonstrating responsibility, becoming educated, and becoming prosperous

• Avoiding responsibility and relying on luck

• Gaining wealth without education

• Isolating from society

What did Booker T. Washington found in 1881?

• National Business League

• Tuskegee Institute

• NAACP

• Civil Rights Movement

In what year did Booker T. Washington found the National Business League?

• 1881

• 1901

• 1895

• 1910

What was one of Booker T. Washington's roles in advising presidents?

• Economic policies

• Racial issues

• Foreign affairs

• Environmental policies

What was considered the key to the emergence of leaders like Martin Luther King Jr.?

• Economic improvement

• Education

• Cooperation with white leaders

• Opposition to Jim Crow laws

What did cooperation with white leaders eventually lead to in the 1960s?

• Economic decline

• Increased poverty

• Progress in civil rights

• More radical aims

What was the focus of the civil rights movement after 1964?

• Reducing poverty

• Increasing segregation

• Promoting Jim Crow laws

• Opposing economic opportunity