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1 African American Leadership

2 Booker T. Washington Leader in the late 19th Century
Atlanta Compromise “Cast down your bucket where you are, cast it down in making friends…of the people of all races by who we are surrounded…”

3 Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute-vocational school
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”

4 Booker T. Washington Conform to whites Segregation-Patience
Protest-be careful Suffrage-be prepared

5 W.E.B. DuBois Niagara Movement
“The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.”

6 W.E.B. DuBois Instill a work ethic Politically confrontational
Pan Africanism “Dark Water: Voices from Within the Veil”

7 W.E.B. DuBois “talented tenth” “The Souls of Black Folk”—self esteem
America and it democratic ideals

8 W.E.B. DuBois NAACP-1909 Political alliances with moderate whites
Goals: immediate suffrage, equal opportunity in education and employment

9 Marcus Garvey “Africa for the Africans…at home and abroad!”
Harlem Renaissance Universal Negro Improvement Association Embrace segregation-Pride in Africanism Community


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