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How did Garvey, Washington, and Du Bois differ in their approaches to the problems faced by African-Americans after Reconstruction?
“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the
color-line.”
Do now:
– W.E.B. Du Bois
1.What do you think this quotation means? What is Du Bois indicating?
2.What is the ‘problem’ that Du Bois refers to?
3.Is this questions still relevant today?
Task
Vocab: Disenfranchisement: to deprive a person of a privilege or right
(specially the right to vote) Suffrage: the right to vote.
In groups of 3, read the speeches, answer the question, and complete the triple Venn diagram.
Compare & Contrast
Wanted African
Americans to gain civil
rights (right to be treated equal)
Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. WashingtonProblem• African Americans lack access to economic
opportunities because whites have denied them opportunities and are trying to use immigrants to fill jobs instead of African Americans.
Solution• African Americans and whites must work together in
the South • African Americans need vocational training and whites
need to be willing to provide them with education and jobs.
Washington argues that once African Americans achieve economic prosperity as a race, social
equality will follow…
W.E.B. Du BoisProblem • African Americans have been consistently denied their
civil and social rights
Solution • consistent advocacy (fight for) rights by African
Americans
Without rights, nothing else is possible (African Americans cannot achieve economic success and
ensure the safety of that success without suffrage, equal opportunities).
Marcus GarveyProblem • African Americans have no jobs because white men are
taking over all economic opportunities and will soon ask African Americans to leave or die.
Solution • the creation of black nations in Africa.
According to Garvey, there will be no place for Blacks unless they create one for themselves (Garvey gives the example of how overcrowding of
Europe made America into a land of Europeans; overcrowding in Europe and America threaten to do the
same thing to Africa).
Which one you think would be the most effective solution to the
problem of inequity?
Garvey’s solution
Washington’s solution
Or
Du Bois’ solution
WHY???
Are reparations due to African Americans?
Reparations for slavery is the idea that some form of compensatory payment should be made to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved by the Atlantic Slave Trade.
“Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
Booker T. Washington