Problems of Poverty and Discrimmination
Booker T. WAshingto and W.E.B Dubois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and descrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1877-1915, assess the apopriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which eas was developed.
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois offered different strategies in dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by African Americans. Washington’s “accommodationist” methods and Dubois’s “integrationist” strategies each received heavy criticism.
Washington used controversial methods that did not directly challenge white supremacy in order to deal with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black people. He was a teacher at Tuskegee Institute in the 1880s, which was an industrial school at the time. He emphasized practical skills and stressed that a vocational education would help blacks acquire economic independence which in turn would lead to the white race recognizing their political rights. However, document H indicates that his ideas received much scrutiny. People accused his emphasis on vocational training as an idea which stifled the progress of the black race because it “condemned” the education received by college educated blacks. Also, many believed that vocational education served as a barrier which kept blacks from achieving higher levels of education. Furthermore, many thought that Washington’s methods did nothing to help black racial progress and thought accommodationism created a larger polarization between blacks and whites. Furthermore, Document J clearly expresses how Washington’s acceptance to submit to white authority did nothing to help the discrimination faced by his race. The portrait depicts a white man and a black man drinking water from separate water fountains. The black water
Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1877-1915, assess the apopriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which eas was developed.
(Obviously can't provide the documents)
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois offered different strategies in dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by African Americans. Washington’s “accommodationist” methods and Dubois’s “integrationist” strategies each received heavy criticism.
Washington used controversial methods that did not directly challenge white supremacy in order to deal with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black people. He was a teacher at Tuskegee Institute in the 1880s, which was an industrial school at the time. He emphasized practical skills and stressed that a vocational education would help blacks acquire economic independence which in turn would lead to the white race recognizing their political rights. However, document H indicates that his ideas received much scrutiny. People accused his emphasis on vocational training as an idea which stifled the progress of the black race because it “condemned” the education received by college educated blacks. Also, many believed that vocational education served as a barrier which kept blacks from achieving higher levels of education. Furthermore, many thought that Washington’s methods did nothing to help black racial progress and thought accommodationism created a larger polarization between blacks and whites. Furthermore, Document J clearly expresses how Washington’s acceptance to submit to white authority did nothing to help the discrimination faced by his race. The portrait depicts a white man and a black man drinking water from separate water fountains. The black water