Post 1: Weighing the Arguments
Due: Thursday, February 16, 11pm
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois offer competing arguments as to how African-Americans—many of whom were former slaves—should go about obtaining first-class citizenship in the United States. After reading both arguments, which one is more conservative, and which is more militant? Which argument do you find yourself agreeing with more?
And finally, consider these facts: Washington himself is a former slave; Du Bois was born free in New England. How might these two men’s radically different pasts have influenced their arguments?
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