8.3: The Struggle Against Discrimination / WEB DuBois v. Booker T. Washington

Chapter 8.3: The Struggle Against Discrimination

Learning Objectives:  

1. Analyze Progressives' attitudes toward minority rights.
2. Explain why African Americans organized.
3. Examine the strategies used by members of other minority groups to defend their rights.

Standards (pp. TN34-TN42):

• US11 Using textual evidence, compare and contrast the ideas and philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois.
• US16 Citing textual evidence as appropriate, explain the significant roles played by muckrakers and progressive idealists, including Robert La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair.
• US18 Describe the movement to achieve suffrage for women, including its leaders, the activities of suffragettes, the passage of the 19th Amendment, and the role of Tennessee in the suffrage effort (Anne Dallas Dudley, Harry Burn, Josephine Pearson, “Perfect 36”).
• US19 Analyze the significant progressive achievements during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt including the Square Deal, “trust-busting,” the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Meat Inspection Act, and support for conservation.

8.3 Assignment:

• Page 229: How should we respond to discrimination?
1. How did the views of Washington and Du Bois about the nature of civil rights differ?
2. How do these leaders' opinions reflect the era in which they lived?  Would leaders today make similar arguments?  Explain.
• Section 3 Assessment (p.232): #4 & 6

Read the handout: BT Washington & WEB DuBois DBQ (download here) and answer the questions:

1. Do you consider equal participation in society’s institutions a right or a privilege?
2. Which strategy, Washington or DuBois, would garner the most success? In the late 1890s? Today?
3. To what extent have the five demands of DuBois been achieved by 2015?

Create a Venn Diagram:  Compare & Contrast the Ideas of Washington & DuBois