1. What’s Happening in the following weeks….
NO FINAL EXAM! 
FINAL PROJECT: Details on Tuesday.

2. Bell Ringer
During the Jim Crow Era (after the Civil War), what would have been the best way for African Americans to make gains in society and fight for equality?

3. Two Af/Am Intellectuals Two Approaches to Equality
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Common Question: “What should African Americans do to get their place in society?”

4. Booker T. Washington 1856-1915 Born a slave
Educated at Hampton University
Founder of Tuskegee University

6. The Atlanta Compromise
BTW gave speech at the “Negro Pavilion” in Atlanta, 1895
Urged southern blacks AND whites to “cast down your bucket where you are.”
"In all things that are purely social, "he said, "we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

7. B.T. Washington’s Plan
Blacks should not blame whites for their situation
Blacks should start from the bottom and work up
Build economic base with farming/industry
ACCEPT Jim Crow inequalities for now: work for economic opportunity
Civil/political rights NOT as important as economic opportunity
Developed programs for job training & vocational skills
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8. Approach endeared him to influential whites
Dined with President Roosevelt in 1901

9. Asked whites to give job opportunities to black people
Popular with white leaders in North/South
Unpopular with many black leaders
Some considered him an Uncle Tom

10. W.E.B. DuBois 1868-1963 Born in Boston, Mass. as a free black
Educated at Fisk and Harvard University
Initially supported
B. T. Washington

11. DuBois's Plan
Wrote “The Souls of Black Folk” where he criticized Washington’s approach
“The problem of the 20th century will be the color line.”
Demanded immediate equality
Blacks should get educated
Advocated the Talented Tenth
Black doctors, lawyers, intellectuals

12. NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Founded by 60 people - 7 African American (including DuBois, Ida B. Wells)
Goal was to secure equal rights guaranteed in the 13th ,14th and 15th amendments
First president was a white lawyer
DuBois directed Publications and Research

15. Who Would Have Said It?.. For each quote, identify the speaker: Booker T or WEB?
“Demand equality and demand it now!”
“Be a plumber, be an electrician...get a job and earn the respect of the white man.”
“We are just as smart any white person, if not smarter! We shouldn’t need to prove that! Demand that Jim Crow laws be repealed throughout the South now!”