Discussion Post
Read Chapters 19 & 20 and "Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903)", and respond to the following questions. Make sure to reference specific passages from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
1) According to Washington, how should African Americans respond to systemic racial discrimination?
2) What does Washington mean when he says that "the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly?"
3) What does DuBois think of Washington's plan to uplift African Americans?
4) What, according to DuBois, has been the result of following Washington's advice?