Yesterday (2/25/13) we only had class for about 5 minutes
due to the “I am dirt” presentation about drug awareness. Today in class
(2/26/13) we started a new unit on Civil Rights and learned about Booker T.
Washington who was born a slave in 1856 and was nine years old when slavery ended.
Washington became the principle of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama which was
a school designed to teach blacks industrial skills. Washington believed that
African Americans should start from the bottom and work their way to the top to
earn respect. Dubois was born a free man and was raised in Massachusetts. He
was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard. Dubois opposed Washington’s
ideas and started the Niagra Movement, which demanded immediate rights through legal
cases.
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