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Assignment:

Writing Prompt: Based on the writings of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, whose ideas were best for African Americans in the early 20th Century?

Instructions:

Review the videos and the textbook chapter. Then read the two primary sources very carefully.

Consider the numerous challenges facing African Americans you have read about: Building communities following slavery, Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws, voting restrictions, illegal terrorist militias such as the Ku Klux Klan, economic challenges, and more. Then, describe the key differences between the ideas of Washington and Du Bois. At the end, identify whose ideas you believe were best for the nation at the beginning of the 20th century and why.

A good format for this response would be:

Paragraph 1: Describe the most important ideas of Washington. Identify key phrases in the primary source that capture his ideas and weave them into your analysis.

Paragraph 2: Describe the most important ideas of Du Bois. Identify key phrases in the primary source that capture his ideas and weave them into your analysis.

Paragraph 3: Identify the key differences in the ideas of these two important thinkers. Explain your reasoning for why you chose those differences.

Paragraph 4: Identify which one's ideas, either Washington or Du Bois, were best for the nation at the beginning of the 20th century. Describe your reasoning for why you chose those ideas.