Reflection
At the beginning of the lesson, you selected several quotes from Washington and Du Bois to indicate which you most supported. Who actually authored each of these quotes?
Open the two lists of quotes to see. Then compare that to your original choices by clicking My Work.
“Many have had the thought that industrial training was meant to make the Negro work, much as he worked during the days of slavery. This is far from my idea of it, but how to make the forces of nature—air, water, horsepower, steam, and electric power—work for him. . . .”
—Booker T. Washington
“The agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”
—Booker T. Washington
“So long as the Negro is permitted to get education, acquire property, and secure employment, and is treated with respect in the business or commercial world—as is now true in the greater part in the South—I shall have the greatest faith in his working out his own destiny in our Southern States.”
—Booker T. Washington
“The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first be to deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.”
—W. E. B. Du Bois
“The American Negro demands equality—political equality, industrial equality, and social equality; and he is never going to rest satisfied with anything less. He demands this . . . as an absolute measure of self-defense and the only one that will assure to the darker races their ultimate survival on earth.”
—W. E. B. Du Bois
“We are approaching a time when railroads, coal mines, and many factories can and ought to be run by the public for the public.”
—W. E. B. Du Bois
Who authored most of the quotes that you agreed with? Was he the person you initially predicted you would support? If so, why did your position stay the same throughout the lesson? If not, why did it change?
