Booker T vs W.E.B

1. Booker T vs W.E.B

2. African American Struggles • Cultural Enclaves • Restrictive Covenants • Black Codes • Jim Crow Laws • Plessy v Ferguson • Voting Restrictions (Grandfather clauses, reading tests, poll taxes)

3. Booker T Washington • Born in slavery to a white father and slave mother • Worked his way through school and eventually attended college • First leader of the Tuskegee Institute • Gave the famous Atlanta Address • Often criticized as the ‘Tuskegee Machine’, especially by members of the NAACP • Argued that African Americans could gain rights by fitting in to society at large and getting good, economically sound jobs

5. W.E.B DuBois • Harvard graduate who later became at professor of economics at Atlanta University • Leader of the NAACP • Argued for immediate political representation for blacks in American society • Argued that low education levels led to crime and poverty • Called the “father of Pan Africanism”