African American Leaders

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African American Leaders
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Booker T. Washington

• Equality through vocational training
• He accepted social separation
• African Americans could advance faster through
  hard work
• Rather than by demanding rights

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W.E. B. Du Bois

• Believed in full
• Political, civil and social
• rights for African Americans
• Speak out! against
• discrimination
• Become college educated
• Talented Tenth
• Founder of the NAACP
• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People

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Booker T. Washington Economic Equality

• Civil Rights leader and President
• of Tuskegee Institute
• Believed
• Economic independence was the only way to
  achieve social and political equality
• Forget social equality instead learn a skill,
  become self-sufficient, buy a home
• Then equality will come
• work within the limitations of separate but
  equal
• The International Exposition in Atlanta,
  1895-gave his famous speech

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• Atlanta Compromise Speech
• Focus on learning skills
• Gain economic strength
• Have to earn respect and the right to demand
  equality
• Work your way up in society
• Blacks and whites need to work together to
  achieve racial equality

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W.E.B. DuBois Social EqualityNAACP

• Fought for civil rights
• Demanded equality (14th amend)
• Knowledge and truth not enough
• Need ACTION
• Education for 10 percent talented tenth of
  African American population
• Did not agree with Booker T. Washington

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• DuBois thought Washington was making social,
  political and economic decisions that affected
  all blacks
• He disagreed with the idea that blacks who became
  economically successful and waited long enough
  would see race relations improve

• W.E.B. DuBois

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Who said this-Washington or DuBois?

• If one just works hard, he can achieve many
  things
• Washington

• We must speak out against unfair treatment in
  this society
• DuBois

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• http//tinyurl.com/AfrAmer

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• How would you feel if you were not allowed to go
  to the same school as other children in your
  community?

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Compare and Contrast Washington and DuBois Use
pages 270-271
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. DuBois
How they were alike
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John Hope

• Lugenia Burns Hope

• social reformer
• Civic leader
• Neighborhood Union
• Gave neighborhood vocational classes for children
  
• Health center
• Clubs for boys and girls
• Provided financial aid

• Friend of Dubois
• Fought for social equality
• Civil leader
• Leading educator
• First black president of Morehouse College
• NAACP
• YMCA

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Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927)

• An African American barber and entrepreneur, he
  was founder and president of the Atlanta Life
  Insurance Company, one of the most successful
  black-owned insurance businesses in the nation.
• At the time of his death in 1927, he was also
  Atlanta's wealthiest black citizen,

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Quick Quiz

• 1. Which African American leader believed that
  a Talented Tenth of the African American
  population could serve as leaders for all other
  African Americans?
• A. Frederick Douglass
• B. W.E.B. DuBois
• C. John Hope
• D. Booker T. Washington

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Quick Quiz

• 2. What organization was founded by Lugenia Burns
  Hope?
• A. NAACP
• B. Girl Scouts
• C. Neighborhood Union
• D. Y.W.C.A.

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Quick Quiz

• 3. What business made Alonzo Herndon a
  successful businessman?
• A. Coca-cola
• B. Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company
• C. Georgia Pacific
• D. Western and Atlantic Railroad

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Quick Quiz

• 4. What racial issue did Booker T. Washington
  support?
• A. economic equality
• B. political equality
• C. religious equality
• D. social equality

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Bonus

• What racial issue, opposed by Booker T.
  Washington, did W.E.B.DuBois support?
• A. economic equality
• B. political equality
• C. religious equality
• D. social equality

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Acoustic Poem

• Your task
• Create an acoustic poem with one of the following
  African American leaders, using their full name
• Your poem MUST include information from your
  notes or the textbook
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• John Hope
• Lugenia Burns Hope
• Alonzo Herndon