With the end of the Civil War to the end of reconstruction, African Americans at this time had to deal with an ever constant barrage of discrimination.
Your Assignment:
Compare and Contrast the views of Booker T. Washington and Ida Wells-Barnett on how African Americans should deal with discrimination.
Due: By Sunday 11/23/08 at 11:59 p.m.
Monday, November 17, 2008
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Booker T washington thought that they didn't need to protest they needed to be all quiet about with it. Ida thought that the blacks needed to protest about adainst the discrinination of blacks.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington belived that the blacks shouldn't protest for their rights, where on the other hand Ida B Wells thought that the black should protest to stop segragation in scholls and such.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington urged blacks to not protest and not argue against discrimination. He believed this would only feed the fire and make social progress worse. He thought they needed the cooperation of the Southern whites. Wells, however, disagreed with this theory. She encouraged protesting and participated in it causing her to loose her teaching job. She also lynched and wrote about discrimination.
ReplyDeleteWashington believed that education was the way for African Americans to rise up in society,where as Ida Wells-Barnett took a different approach. She literally fought for her rights as well as African American and women's right. She held marches and refused to stand in the back due to the fact that she was black.She also got many others to boycott and protest along with her
ReplyDeleteWashington thought, that African American's should concentrate on the economic advancement, because that was (in his opinion)the key to political an social equality! And he was against protesting.
ReplyDeleteIda was part of the Memphis Free Speech and became a teacher and journalist and wrote a fiery editorial on lynching, because three of her friends got lynched.
Later she also wrote "A Red REcord", the first statstical study of lynching.
The differences between Booker T. Washington's ideas and Ida Wells was that Washington believed things should be settled peacefully and that they should not protest against discrimination. On the other hand, Ida Wells believed the opposite. She thought that African Americans should protest against the descrimination. In the end, this got her fired from her teaching job. She protested by writing in newspapers and writing books.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that at the end of this time African Americans had alot of public discrimination. The new south was looking more and more like the old. But there were two influential people that had very different outlooks on this topic.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington thought that the African American race should focus on economic development. That the blacks should rise us and prove the whites wrong. He also believed that they should not give rise and protest to public discrimination that whites had against the blacks.
Ida Wells believed the opposite, she believed in protesting the public discrimination. She started a newspaper that was later burnt down so she would stop the public protesting.
These are just a few way that blacks ideias differed about their own public discrimination.
Booker T Washington wasn't as radical as Ida Wells-Barnett. Booker T. Washington was the peaceful type telling african americans not to rebel or protest with force. Ida was opposite. She believed that force was neccesary to prove equality rights.
ReplyDeleteWashington urged blacks to seek practical training in trades and professions. He also discouraged them from protesting against discrimination, urguing that such protesting merely increased whites' hostility. Ida was born a slave and then became a teacher. She then soon turned to journalism, she vowed to put a stop to lynching and wrote a fiery editorial on the subject. Whites then destroyed her newspaper office in response.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washingon and Ida Wells both fought hard for black writes but they went about this two diffrent ways.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington beilived that aconomic advancement was the key and that blacks should strive to become more educated and have practical professions and trades. HE believed with economic strength came social power and and more rights. He also believed blacks shouldn't protest because he thought it increased white hostility.
Ida Wells believed that blacks should protest and she was often involved in various protests. She also wrote editorials about the discrimination blacks had to deal with and put them in newspapers, that way she wanted to keep the country informed of African American stuggles.
Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans should concentrate on economic advancement. To futher blacks' economic independence-which he believed was the key to political and social equality-Washington urged blacks to seek practical training in trades and professions. He also discouraged them from progesting against discrimination arguing that such protesting merely increased whites' hostility. If economic and social progress was to be made, he claimed, blacks would need "the cooperation of the Southern whites" because "they control government and own the property."
ReplyDeleteMany African American leaders such as Ida Wells-Barnett didn't agree with Washington's position. She argued instead that blacks should protest unfair treatment. She even went as far as protesting discrimination and segragated schools, which inevitably lost her her teaching job. People like Ida built their own institutions, and they adopted several approaches to fighting discrimination.
Booker T. Washington said to just let it slide and not worry about so much. Ida Wells-Barnett said they needed to fight for the freedom
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington who was a former slave founded Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute in 1881. He believed that African Americans should concentrate on economic independence-which he believed was the key to political social equality-he urged blacks to seek practical training in professions and trades. Washington also discouraged them from protesting against discrimination arguing that such protesting just increased the whites’ hostility. If economic and social progress was to be made he claimed blacks need to be cooperative because the whites controlled the government and owned all the property.
ReplyDeleteIda Wells-Black on the other hand did not agree with Washington. She argued instead that blacks should protest unfair treatment. Ida became a teacher at age 14, and then moved to Tennessee where she lost her teaching job when she began protesting discrimination and segregated schools. Ida then turned to journalism becoming part owner of Memphis Free Speech. In 1892 whites lynched three of her friends, she then vowed to stop lynching and wrote fiery editorial on the subject. Angry whites destroyed the newspaper office as revenge. For the rest of her life she spent trying to stop lynching. Wells tireless efforts keep the public’s attention on the issue.
Booker T. Washington wanted to take violent action aginst discrimination, but Ida Wells-Barnett wanted to do it peacefully.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington was more fighting for economic development. He wanted to prove the whites wrong. He believed that the protests and outbreaks of discrimination were unneccesary.
ReplyDeleteIda Wells to contrast, believed in protesting the public discrimination. She tried her best to keep people protesting and stopping the discrimination.