Two Sides of the Same Coin— Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois on Education
In the years following Reconstruction, two different viewpoints emerged regarding the education of African-Americans. The first, represented by Booker T. Washington, was that African-Americans needed to gain commercially viable skills and focus on being tradesmen and craftsmen. The second, represented by W.E.B. DuBois, was that African-Americans needed to focus on giving the most talented in their communities a classic liberal arts education, so that these most talented could improve life for AfricanAmericans as a whole. This lesson plan explores these differences, and will give students a sense of how these differences shaped education for AfricanAmericans.
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