1. YouTube - Booker T. Washington & W.E.B Dubois
BOOKER T v WEB
YouTube - Booker T. Washington & W.E.B Dubois

2. Do Now
How do we choose our leaders?? What qualities should a person have for you to allow them to lead you?

3. Over View
Both men were great leaders of the black community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Disagreed on strategies for black social and economic progress

4. Booker T. Washington Educator and reformer
Most influential black leader of his time
Teaching included:
Self Help
Racial Solidarity
Accomodation

5. Booker T. Washington
Urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity
Believed in education of the crafts, industrial and farming skills
Believed in the virtues of patience, enterprise, and thrift
He believed that these qualities would win the respect of the whites and lead to African Americans being fully accepted as citizens

6. W.E.B Dubois
African American Intellectual, Scholar, and Political Thinker
Believed that Washington’s strategy would only perpetuate white oppression
Advocated:
Political Action
Civil Rights Agenda

7. Dubois called for the creration of a small group of college educated blacks that he called the “ Talented Tenth”
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."

8. Two Sides
Washington /Dubois dispute polarized African American leaders into two groups:
The conservative followers of Washington
The radical followers of Dubois

9. Results of each
Dubois’ philosophy of agitation and protest was reflected in the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950’s and 60’s
Washington’s beliefs today are more associated with the self help/colorblind/Republican/ Clearance Thomas? Thomas Sowell wing of the black community.

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YouTube - Booker T. Washington - The Atlanta Compromise Speech (1904)

11. Introduction Booker T. Washington
Introduction
What was a great advancement for the civil rights of African Americans?
Booker T. Washington
Describe Booker T. Washington’s background
What is accommodationism?
Describe the “Negro Problem”. What did it refer to?
What was the Atlanta Compromise?

12. John and Lugenia Burns Hope
W.E.B Duboise
How did W.E.B Dubois’ view differ from Booker T. Washington?
How did Dubois aid in advancing the African American people’s civil rights movement?
John and Lugenia Burns Hope
Describe the Burn’s contributions to the advancement of African Americans
Alonzo Herndon
Illustrate three different examples of how Alonzo Herndon’s success aided in advancing the image of African Americans 1. 2. 3.