Read Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903) and using a minimum of 200
words (not including quotations) respond to the following questions. Make sure to identify specific passages
from the document and/or textbook to support your discussion:
According to Washington, how should African Americans respond to systemic racial discrimination?
What does Washington mean when he says that “the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest
folly?”
What does DuBois think of Washington’s plan to uplift African Americans?
What, according to DuBois, has been the result of following Washington’s advice
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