1. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
African American Equality

2. Booker T. Washington Born a slave in Virginia
A founder of Tuskegee Institute (1881)
Wrote Up from Slavery, autobiography
Explained his view of the role of Black Americans in segregated America in an 1895 speech called the “Atlanta Compromise”.

3. Washington
“in all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand…”
Encouraged Black Americans to learn practical skills (vocational training) in order to hold a job. (economic equality first).
Whites viewed Washington as a spokesperson for Black Americans

4. Washington
Many Black Americans accused Washington of sacrificing equality and integration for white support for the Tuskegee Institute.
Practices a policy of “accommodation” when it came to the Jim Crow Laws.
Accommodation emphasized economic success over racial equality.

5. W.E.B. DuBois Challenged the philosophy of B. T. Washington
Was born and raised in Mass. (not a slave)
1st Black American to earn a PhD at Harvard U.
A founder of the NAACP (1909)
Editor of NAACP’s newspaper – The Crisis

6. DuBois Wrote The Souls of Black Folk, autobiography
Encouraged Black Americans to demand the rights guaranteed in the 14th and 15 amendments
Believed that talented Black Americans should seek a liberal arts or full university education.

7. Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of the formal Reconstruction period in 1877 and the beginning of a strong civil rights movement in the 1950s.
“It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers.” —Birmingham, Alabama, 1930

8. NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.
 Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination".
 Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people.