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DR. LIND mW 10:40-12:05 | Political Activism and Education | Teriyanna Boddie | | | 5/8/2013 |
During reconstruction, many people acted as strong forces to change the lack of equality in the South. There were problems with education and blacks were shunned from any involvement with politics, so any changes made by politicians never benefit the blacks. Blacks wore looks of depression and inferiority throughout the South and were given no means to, even for a second, think that they were a successful group of people as whites were. Blacks were only given industrial education where they could learn solely how to “work with their hands”. In other words, this education taught them how to be successful slaves. It taught them the importance of hard work, how to adjust to their roles, and these schools represented a falsehood that blacks were subordinate and always will be. When concerning political activism, Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans should stay out of politics while ultimately focusing on learning to be productive farmers for the South, by getting an industrial education, making his approach more moderate. However, Dubois and Ida B. Wells took the approach that blacks should actually use political activism to fight for freedom, and obtain a classical education to gain economic strength, making their approach more radical. Although Ida B. wells used justice to bring about the issues of the unequal treatments of blacks and used this as a doorway to stand up for her rights as a black women.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in the South so he was a part of the nucleus of what occurred to be inequality there. He studied at an industrial school named Hampton and was very successful there. Washington took an approach that was very ironic and not expected, when it comes to the discussion of education and political activism. He took the approach of an accommodator. Instead of encouraging blacks to raise up and succeed as a race, he
During reconstruction, many people acted as strong forces to change the lack of equality in the South. There were problems with education and blacks were shunned from any involvement with politics, so any changes made by politicians never benefit the blacks. Blacks wore looks of depression and inferiority throughout the South and were given no means to, even for a second, think that they were a successful group of people as whites were. Blacks were only given industrial education where they could learn solely how to “work with their hands”. In other words, this education taught them how to be successful slaves. It taught them the importance of hard work, how to adjust to their roles, and these schools represented a falsehood that blacks were subordinate and always will be. When concerning political activism, Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans should stay out of politics while ultimately focusing on learning to be productive farmers for the South, by getting an industrial education, making his approach more moderate. However, Dubois and Ida B. Wells took the approach that blacks should actually use political activism to fight for freedom, and obtain a classical education to gain economic strength, making their approach more radical. Although Ida B. wells used justice to bring about the issues of the unequal treatments of blacks and used this as a doorway to stand up for her rights as a black women.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in the South so he was a part of the nucleus of what occurred to be inequality there. He studied at an industrial school named Hampton and was very successful there. Washington took an approach that was very ironic and not expected, when it comes to the discussion of education and political activism. He took the approach of an accommodator. Instead of encouraging blacks to raise up and succeed as a race, he