Document Type
Teacher Resource
Publication Date
Spring 2015
Abstract
Seldom have two vastly different visions been expressed as clearly and as elegantly as in Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) and W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (from The Souls of Black Folk, 1903). Awash in memorable rhetoric, these competing philosophies foresaw very different paths for America, and for black social progress, at the dawn of the twentieth century.
This lesson introduces students to the ideas and informational texts of Washington and DuBois while challenging students to research some of the historical context in which these men lived, worked, and thought.
Recommended Citation
Kotlarczyk, Adam, "Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: Guiding Students to Historical Context" (2015). Other Voices. 2.
https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/other_voices/2
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