Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois

Beth SimmonsBFMS-EastFranklin County, Virginia

USII.3c

Notes-

Read an article or text concerningBooker T. Washington and W. E. B.DuBois between 1890-1915. Complete the Venn Diagram by allowing students to move to the correct boxes. Discuss the background of each man and how this affected his views on segregation and society. Use the pages on each man to discuss background.

As a closing or follow up have students describe each man.

Became a communist

Founder of Tuskegee InstituteVirginiaMassachusetts

Vocational Education

Up From Slavery

Founder of NAACPcoal miner

Higher education for talented top 10%

writer

Advisor to Roosevelt & Taft

Born before Civil War

wrote autobiographyteacher poverty

leaderborn after Civil War

full political, civil, & social rights

PhD from Harvard

Advised college educated to fight discrimination

Educated

Wealth

South

North

Believed insocial separation

The Crisis

William EdwardBurghardtDuBois

BookerTaliaferroWashington

"In purely social matters, black and whites,can be a separate as fingers, yet one as thehand in all things essential to mutual progress."

"Is it possible...that nine million of men canmake effective progress in economic lines if they are deprived of pollitical rights?...Ifhistory and reason give any distinct answer to these questions, it is an emphatic NO."

Roosevelt

Washington

FranklinCounty,Virginia

Booker T. W. E. B.

What do you remember? Describe eachman and his views about society.

Booker T. and W.E.B. by Dudley Randall

"It seems to me, said Booker T.,"It shows a lot of mighty cheekTo study chemistry and GreekWhen Mister Charlie needs a handTo hoe the cotton on his land,And when Miss Ann looks for a cook,Why stick your nose inside a book?"

"I don't agree," said W.E.B.,"If I should have the drive to seekKnowledge of chemistry or Greek,I'll do it. Charles and Miss can lookAnother place for hand or cook.Some men rejoice in skill of handAnd some in cultivating land,But there are others who maintainThe right to cultivate the brain"

Read the poem and discuss the similarities and differences.