1. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
Debating what the best method was for African Americans to gain full integration and civil rights in American society

2. Booker T. Washington
Goal: For African Americans to achieve civil rights through first achieving a baseline of economic stability before they could achieve full integration into American Society.

3. Booker T. Washington/Pros
Taught valuable a useful job skills through vocational education.
Farming
Iron Working
Cooking
Brick Laying
Construction

4. Booker T. Washington/Pros
Had a more realistic goal of teaching a generation of mostly uneducated freed slaves job skills to improve them selves now

5. Booker T. Washington/Pros
A system of education for African Americans that was not threatening to whites. That allowed African Americans to increase their education without the fear and violence of white hatred against them
Gained support from wealthy white benefactors.
Accommodating approach helped fund black colleges, support talented young men and women as teachers and channel resources to support civil rights activities and individuals under cover and out of sight.

6. Booker T. Washington/Cons
Settled for not having social and political equality for the time being (didn’t insist on gaining civil rights)
Saw as a “sell out” to some people in his race.
Did not demand a higher education for African Americans
Was blamed for creating a black underclass through focusing on vocational education.
Atlanta Compromise renounced civil rights and racial equality for blacks in favor of separate or segregated economic development

7. W.E.B. Du Bois
Goal: For African Americans to achieve full civil rights (social and political equality, as well as black pride) as soon as possible.

8. W.E.B. Du Bois/Pros
Demanded that African Americans should never accept inequality.
It’s all Americans Constitutional right to have their civil rights and there is never a need to wait.
Called for an ending of Jim Crow, Plessy V. Ferguson, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses.

9. W.E.B. Du Bois/Pros
Believed that vocational as well as a liberal arts education were essential for the black community in gaining equal rights and moving ahead in American society.
Looked to educate the next generation of African American leaders to lead the way for civil rights.

10. W.E.B. Du Bois/Pros
Founded the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Worked through the courts to achieve civil rights for African Americans.

11. W.E.B. Du Bois/Cons
Not as realistic as Washington considering how whites felt about blacks.
Will forced assimilation create an equal, just and fair society?

12. W.E.B. Du Bois/Cons
Not only were African Americans in need of civil rights, but economically they were struggling and his plan did not address those needs as quickly.
System that was more hostile with whites, did not get their support and may have lead to longer, harder struggle.

13. Booker T. or W.E.B. Du Bois Now you have to choose!