Comparing W. E. B. Dubois And Booker T. Washington
PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. BE SURE TO TYPE THE QUESTIONS IN BOLD AND THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS USING WELL- DEVELOPED SENTENCES:
1. List the universities that participated in the HBCU Roundtable? Who represented each university?
2. List five (5) facts you learned from the information presented about HBCUs at this discussion prior to the film.
I had lots of respect for HBCU's when I was in high school, and it has just increased when I began attending an HBCU myself and watching this documentary. I realized that these HBCU's us students are enjoying had some blood, sweat and tears sacrificed just to make them. From the documentary, I learned that
1) African-Americans loyally served America during the World War I. They were promised …show more content…
Washington were both very intelligent men who made history for African-Americans. Words can't begin to explain just how thankful we should be for the two of them as they helped shaped American history into what it is today. Although they were both very great influences to their community, they had their own ideologies and opinions concerning how racism, economic progress and education should be dealt with in their current society. W.E.B DuBois, as I've learned, was the more stern and unbending civil right activist, then the calm and flexible community leader Booker T. Washington. W.E.B. DuBois believed that the role of education for African-Americans should be in Liberal Arts Education. However, Booker T. Washington suggested that African-Americans would excel better in an industrial education since that's what they have been practicing their whole lives as slaves. Booker T. Washington believed that once African-Americans had gained that economic foothold and showed whites that they were in fact very useful for the American Economy, they would be given social rights. However, that idea was just unacceptable for W.E.B DuBois who thought that Booker T. Washington's idea was just going to feed the white
1. List the universities that participated in the HBCU Roundtable? Who represented each university?
2. List five (5) facts you learned from the information presented about HBCUs at this discussion prior to the film.
I had lots of respect for HBCU's when I was in high school, and it has just increased when I began attending an HBCU myself and watching this documentary. I realized that these HBCU's us students are enjoying had some blood, sweat and tears sacrificed just to make them. From the documentary, I learned that
1) African-Americans loyally served America during the World War I. They were promised …show more content…
Washington were both very intelligent men who made history for African-Americans. Words can't begin to explain just how thankful we should be for the two of them as they helped shaped American history into what it is today. Although they were both very great influences to their community, they had their own ideologies and opinions concerning how racism, economic progress and education should be dealt with in their current society. W.E.B DuBois, as I've learned, was the more stern and unbending civil right activist, then the calm and flexible community leader Booker T. Washington. W.E.B. DuBois believed that the role of education for African-Americans should be in Liberal Arts Education. However, Booker T. Washington suggested that African-Americans would excel better in an industrial education since that's what they have been practicing their whole lives as slaves. Booker T. Washington believed that once African-Americans had gained that economic foothold and showed whites that they were in fact very useful for the American Economy, they would be given social rights. However, that idea was just unacceptable for W.E.B DuBois who thought that Booker T. Washington's idea was just going to feed the white