Be ready to discuss Provide an example (can be from history, personal life, movie, etc.) of two people or two groups that have a common goal but proposed two very different ways to achieve it.

Champion of black education. Believed black citizens should fight for economic equality first, and social equality would eventually follow. Criticized for not pushing against white supremacy. Founded Tuskegee Institute for black students to learn agricultural skills and trades.

Washington Quotes “No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem” “It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.” “Cast down your bucket where you are”— cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.”

Washington Quotes Continued “The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.” “The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.” “No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.”

Demanded complete social and economic equality for blacks in America. Directly challenged white supremacy. Helped found the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples) Argued that a “talented tenth” of blacks should be given immediate access to mainstream life so they could push for racial equality more effectively.

DuBois Quotes “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.”

DuBois Quotes Continued “Is it possible, and probable, that nine millions of men can make effective progress in economic lines if they are deprived of political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meagre chance for developing their exceptional men? If history and reason give any distinct answer to these questions, it is an emphatic No.” “He (Washington) insists on thrift and self-respect, but at the same time counsels a silent submission to civic inferiority such as is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run.”