HIUS 188 Chapter Article Notes: Booker T. Washington Advocates Self-Help & Congressman Frank Clark Praises Segregation & W.E.B. Du Bois Rejects Washington's Strategy of Accommodation

• School: UCSD
• Department: History of the United States
• Course: HIUS 188
• Professor: Rachel Klein

Document Summary

Hius 188 article notes booker t. washington advocates self-help & congressman. Booker t. washington advocates self-help: black needs to befriend whites, and whites need to befriend poc, we do deserve equality, but we need to be prepared for the responsibilities that come with it. Segregation will not discriminate against poc or uplift the whites: but will benefit both races. Separate but equal really is equal: there is no disparity in accommodation. "imagine a nice, new passenger coach, packed with dirty, greasy, filthy negroes, down. South, in midsummer, and you can readily understand why that car does not long remain as good, as clean, and as desirable as a similar car occupied exclusively by white traders" South has been trying to uplift the black people for years: by using their taxes to build them schools, churches, etc. "we would not destroy the negro, but we would preserve the caucasian.