L3: The Rise of Civil Rights: Black Agency at the Turn of the Century Equality and Hierarchy: The African American Experience Agenda Objective: 1.To understand the competing views of black improvement held by Washington, DuBois, and Wells and the significance of these ideas. Schedule: 1.Whole Class Discussion Homework: 1.Consult Unit Schedule. Remember: Literature Review Due...(Tan = Wed; Red & Blue = Thurs);

The Rise of Civil Rights and Black Agency: Setting the Stage Describe the post-Reconstruction lives of blacks between 1877 and the early 1900s. It is in this context that we have the rise of the first black activists who sought to “improve” the black condition. –Booker T. Washington –W.E.B. DuBois –Ida B. Wells

Booker T. Washington Born into slavery in Virginia Mother was a slave, father was a nearby planter. Dominant leader of the African American community from 1890 to 1915 Representative of the last generation of black leaders born in slavery Founder of Tuskegee University

W. E. B. Dubois Born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Experienced very little racism as a child First African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard Professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University Co-Founder of NAACP

Ida B. Wells Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi just before the Emancipation Proclamation Journalist and newspaper editor Active in both black rights and women’s rights organizations

Understanding the Work of Washington, DuBois, and Wells Washington, DuBois, and Wells were three pioneering civil rights advocates who all sought to uplift or improve the conditions of African Americans but had very different ways of achieving that. We will have a whole class discussion comparing the plans of each of their three thinkers and their significance.