Question

Identify two African American leaders of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Describe the contributions of each leader.

Answer 1

Answer:

William Lyord Garrison

Answer 2

Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois

Explanation:

Booker T Washington (1895-1915)

• Inside the African American culture Booker Taliaferro Washington wielded political power. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881, to provide African Americans with  education.
• His power grew out of his prestigious relationship with the institution, for his communication and compromise  talent and his fame as a speaker. He later was African American's most influential, earning financial assistance from such renowned philanthropists as Andrew Carnegie.
• The so-called power machine of Tuskegee used its leverage to provide African Americans with educational grants and  federal patronage jobs. In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt asked Washington to have dinner there. This was the first time that a President interacted professionally with an African American.

William Edward Burghardt Du Boi ( late 1800s-1963)

• Du Bois had achieved national attention as leader of the Niagara Movement, a coalition of African-American activists who wanted blacks to have equal rights. Du Bois and his supporters rejected the Atlanta settlement, an arrangement negotiated by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks should serve and adhere to white political law, while Southern whites promised basic educational and economic opportunities for blacks.
• Alternatively, Du Bois insisted on absolute civil rights and expanded electoral influence which he believed the African-American intellectual class should bring about. He referred to this category as the Talented Tenth, a term within the umbrella of racial uplift, and argued that African Americans needed the ability to improve their leadership for advanced education.
• Racism was Du Bois's key focus and he campaigned vigorously against lynching, Jim Crow laws and inequality in schooling and jobs. His cause included people of color everywhere, particularly Africans and colonial Asians.
• He was a supporter of Pan-Africanism and helped to organise many Pan-African Congresses to fight for African colonies' freedom from European interests. Du Bois flew to Europe, Africa and Asia on many voyages. He studied the experiences of American Black troops in France during World War I and documented systematic discrimination and sexism in the U.S. military