Lesson 6: Roles Of Booker T Washington And W.E.B DuBois

Question 1

Who did Booker T Washington appeal towards?

Answer 1

He was a role model for the younger generation/ new black generation

Question 2

What was Booker T Washington’s “fame and fortune”?

Answer 2

Fame: made speeches against white brutality
Fortune: wrote 14 books and autobiography “Up from Slavery”

Question 3

What school did Booker T Washington set up?

Answer 3

Tuskegee Institute, 1881, in Alabama

Question 4

What did the Tuskegee Institute teach?

Answer 4

Vocational and practical education rather than intellectual.

Taught young black boys practical skills in farming, carpentry and brickmaking.

(Institute gained support of white investors)

Question 5

What did Booker T Washington state in his 1895 speech in Atlanta?

Answer 5

That black americans should not agitate in their quest for equality (no violence)

To focus on economic advancement

Question 6

What did Booker T Washington set up in 1900?

Answer 6

National Negro Business League

Supported the setting up and running of black businesses.

Question 7

What was Washington’s beliefs on black americans situation?

Answer 7

-He accepted segregation
-Willing to compromise with whites
-Black americans should concerntrate on developing practical skills to contribute to economy and be accepted by whites
-Equality would come through work not force

Question 8

Why was Washington powerful?

Answer 8

• support of Northen Industrialists
• black churches looked up to him for guidence
• owned several black newspapers
  -white politicans and businessmen supported his views

Question 9

Who was the Northern industrialist that supported Booker T Washington?

Answer 9

John Rockefeller

He was the first billionaire and owned 90% of oil companies in 1880s

Question 10

Why did many black americans disapprove of Booker T Washington?

Answer 10

He accepted segregation which was controversial amongst black americans

Many believed he was more interested in attracting money from white supporters for his institute than supporting civil rights

Question 11

3 brief points why B.Washington had great impact on gaininv civil rights?

Answer 11

1) Tuskegee Institute 1881
2) National Negro Business League
3) support from blacks and whites

Question 12

Why did W.E.B DuBois critically oppose Booker T Washington?

Answer 12

He wanted an end to segregation, unlike Washington who wanted to work with whites.
DuBois was willing to use violence against violence.

Question 13

What did W.E.B DuBois want for black Americans?

Answer 13

• Full Civil Rights
• End to segregation
• Extension of the franchise (the vote)
• Equal opportunity in all aspects of life and work

Question 14

What did W.E.B DuBois set up?

Answer 14

The Niagara Movement in 1905

Later joined forces with the NAACP

Question 15

What role did W.E.B DuBois have in the NAACP?

Answer 15

Editor of NAACPs magazine ‘The Crisis’

Readership:
1917: 50,000
1919: 100,000

Question 16

What did W.E.B DuBois campaign against in ‘The Crisis’?

Answer 16

-Lynching
-Jim Crow Laws
-Sexual inequality

Question 17

Were DuBois and the NAACP successful in stopping the film ‘Birth of a Nation’ in 1915?

Answer 17

Failed in preventing the film from becoming a box office success

However some cities did respond to campaign and refused to show the film

Question 18

Limitations of W.E.B DuBois?

Answer 18

His Niagara movement wasnt as big as Booker T washingtons campaign therefore didnt have many members

He was agnostic= didnt gain support of the churches

DuBois and Washington could not cooperate.

Question 19

3 brief reasons why W.E.B DuBois helped achieve civil rights for black americans?

Answer 19

1) Niagara Movement 1905
2) The Crisis
3) work with NAACP in campaign for civil rights (birth of a nation)