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African Americans Fight for Rights. “All men are created equal.”. W.E.B. Du Bois. Booker T. Washington. African American Leaders. African American Leaders. African American Leaders. African American Leaders. African American Leaders. Think about it…. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
African Americans African Americans Fight for RightsFight for Rights
“All men are
created equal.”
Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Background
Advice
Strategy
Support
African American LeadersAfrican American Leaders
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Background Slave, self-taught, coal mines, school
Scholar, Harvard, PhD
Advice
Strategy
Support
African American LeadersAfrican American Leaders
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Background Slave, self-taught, coal mines, school
Scholar, Harvard, PhD
Advice Accept inferior position
Get complete equality
Strategy
Support
African American LeadersAfrican American Leaders
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Background Slave, self-taught, coal mines, school
Scholar, Harvard, PhD
Advice Accept inferior position
Get complete equality
Strategy Education (vocational) and saving money
Oppose and fight discrimination
Support
African American LeadersAfrican American Leaders
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Background Slave, self-taught, coal mines, school
Scholar, Harvard, PhD
Advice Accept inferior position
Get complete equality
Strategy Education (vocational) and saving money
Oppose and fight discrimination
Support Business leaders, Presidents, many whites, many blacks
Jane Addams, reformers, NAACP, blacks and whites
African American LeadersAfrican American Leaders
Think about it…Think about it…
In what way do you think the very different backgrounds
of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
influenced
their very different beliefs and strategies concerning the
advancement of African Americans in society?
LynchingLynching
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
LynchingLynching
Who? Whites against African Americans
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
LynchingLynching
Who? Whites against African Americans
What? Epidemic of murder by a mob
Where?
When?
Why?
LynchingLynching
Who? Whites against African Americans
What? Epidemic of murder by a mob
Where? South and elsewhere
When?
Why?
LynchingLynching
Who? Whites against African Americans
What? Epidemic of murder by a mob
Where? South and elsewhere
When? 1890s through Great Depression
Why?
LynchingLynching
Who? Whites against African Americans
What? Epidemic of murder by a mob
Where? South and elsewhere
When? 1890s through Great Depression
Why? Prejudice; anger during Depression; blame others for problems
Think about itThink about it
How might this treatment of whites toward
African Americans impact the women’s
movement that is occurring simultaneously?
Ida B. Wells
MuckrakerMuckraker
Who
Protecting
How
MuckrakerMuckraker
Who Ida B Wells
Protecting
How
MuckrakerMuckraker
Who Ida B Wells
Protecting African Americans
How
MuckrakerMuckraker
Who Ida B Wells
Protecting African Americans
How Newspaper: Free Speech; urge African Americans to protest lynchings, boycott segregated places; speak out
Think about it…Think about it…
How would an African American woman
prioritize her fight for rights in the context
of both the women’s movement and the
movement for African American
advancement?
Setbacks and SuccessesSetbacks and Successes
Setbacks Successes
Setbacks and SuccessesSetbacks and Successes
Setbacks Successes
White Progressives don’t care
Setbacks and SuccessesSetbacks and Successes
Setbacks Successes
White Progressives don’t care
President Wilson supports segregation
Setbacks and SuccessesSetbacks and Successes
Setbacks Successes
White Progressives don’t care
Inventors (George Washington Carver and Sarah Walker)
President Wilson supports segregation
Setbacks and SuccessesSetbacks and Successes
Setbacks Successes
White Progressives don’t care
Inventors (George Washington Carver and Sarah Walker)
President Wilson supports segregation
Black run businesses, colleges, and churches serve African Americans
Think about it…Think about it…
How would you anticipate both Booker T. Washington
and W.E.B. DuBois responding to the setbacks and
successes of African Americans?