Segregation/Progressive Movement
Thinking Routine
African American Response Booker T. Washington Emphasized education and vocational (job) training Wrote Up From Slavery Education key to success and equal rights and ending segregation Deal with discrimination now
African American Response W.E.B. DuBois Wrote “The Souls of Black Folks” Key to ending segregation is GET voting rights Compare article Take action now! https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=qGLm7VUbIWE https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=NnVt9RvN548
Watch “Many Rivers to Cross” –on PBS (Ch Watch “Many Rivers to Cross” –on PBS (Ch. 56) great series on African Americans struggle for civil rights
The Question: Should society help the People struggling during this era? 2 Ideas: Social Darwinism and Gospel of Wealth Social Darwinism: - survival of the fittest- society is based on competition and only the strongest will survive Based on individualism- no matter how poor you may be, you can rise up in society
Idea 2 Gospel of Wealth: Andrew Carnegie’s idea that the wealthy should help the poor (use their power to create conditions that would help people help themselves) Follows naturalism- the idea that some people failed at life due to circumstances that are out of their control EX: building public schools and hospitals rather than giving money hand-outs
What other problems plagued the Gilded Age?
"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” Upton Sinclair
OR… Recreate the book title name based on your excerpt
Excerpts
Introductory Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Q4zPR4G7M Crash Course Introductory Reading
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