Analyze Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 ('separate but equal') + Harlan dissent + Jim Crow segregation + Ida B. Wells Southern Horrors 1892 + A Red Record 1895 + EJI 2017 Lynching in America (4,400+ lynchings 1877-1950) + Booker T. Washington Atlanta Compromise 1895 + W.E.B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk 1903 + Black colleges 1865-1900 + NACW 1896
Exercise Difficulty 5 ~20 min hist.g8.f.ex_44

Essay

Prompt

Apply Kendi 2016 Stamped from the Beginning framework (segregationist / assimilationist / antiracist) to the Washington-Du Bois 1895-1903 debate. Cite Atlanta Compromise Sept 18 1895 + Souls of Black Folk 1903.

How it's presented
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Answer criteria
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criteria
  1. Names Kendi 2016 framework
  2. Identifies Washington's Atlanta Compromise as partly assimilationist
  3. Identifies Du Bois's Souls as antiracist
  4. Cites Atlanta Compromise Sept 18 1895 by date
  5. Cites Souls of Black Folk 1903 (esp. ch.3 'Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others')
  6. Refuses 'feud' simplification per Kendi 2016 + Gates 2019 + Lewis 1993
  7. Notes both founded enduring Black institutions (Tuskegee + Niagara Movement -> NAACP 1909)
Hints
  1. Washington advocated industrial education + economic self-sufficiency + temporary social-political accommodation.
  2. Du Bois advocated full civil-political rights + 'Talented Tenth' liberal-arts education.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Treating debate as personal animosity rather than strategic difference
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