Black History in the Progressive Era

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Black History in the Progressive Era

• Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois

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Booker T. Washington

• Born into slavery 1856
• Hampton Institute
• Founded Tuskegee
• Trades/Manual and Industrial Arts
• Up From Slavery
• Atlanta Exposition
• Economic Power and Independence First
• Cast down your buckets where you are.

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W.E.B. DuBois

• Born in MA 1868
• Fiske University
• Ph.D. Harvard
• Agitate for full political and social equality
• Talented Tenth
• Souls of Black Folk
• Niagara Movement
• NAACP
• The problem of the 20th century is the problem
  of the color line.