Black Reformers in C,,onflict

A. Find and copy a quote from the Washington reading that expresses the idea of the
paraphrase given:
1. It is foolish to provoke conflict with whites.
yes

2. Whites should hire the local African Americans, not foreigners.

“to those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who
underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the southern white
man who is their next door neighbor”

3. Blacks must remember that they have just escaped slavery and it is natural that they
will begin their new lives in jobs where they work with their hands.
cast down your bucket among those people who have, without strike and labor wars,
tilled your fields, cleared your forests, built your railroads

4. Whites and blacks be separate socially but work together economically.

“cast it down in making friends, in every manly way of the people of all races by
whom you are surrounded”

5. Whites must remember that blacks have always helped whites to advance and
prosper.
“cast down your bucket among those people who have without strike and labor
wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, built your railroads and cities, brought forth
treasures from the bowel of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent
representation of progress of the south”

6. Blacks should have their rights, but first they should work to earn a place in society.
“the wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of
social equality is the extremest folly and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges
“
B. Find and copy a quote from the Dubois reading that expresses the idea of the
paraphrase given:
1. African-American children have the right to receive a formal, academic education.

“we want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be and we will fight
for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and
underlings or simply for the use of other people”
2. Only a man with the right to vote can protect his wife and family.
“we would vote, with the right to vote goes everything, freedom, manhood, the honor
of our wives, the chastity of our daughters, the right to work, and the chance to rise and
let no man listen to those who deny this”
3. Freedom of assembly is a basic, undeniable human right.
“we claim the right of freeman to walk”

4. Jim Crow laws are wrong.

“no man has a right to choose another mans friends, and attempt to do so is an
impudent interference with the most fundamental human privilege”
5. Congress should not allow representatives from states that have poll taxes or literacy
tests.
“we want congress to take charge of the congressional elections”

6. Refers to the earliest organization that worked for black civil rights.
“we want the fifthteenth amendment enforced and no state
allowed to base its franchise simply on color”

C. For each descriptor below, identify it with the correct man by writing either BTW or
WEB on the line.
1. Demanded immediate enforcement of the Civil War amendments
web
2. Believed, “There is as much dignity in plowing a field as there is in writing a
poem.” btw
3. Urged accommodation, not agitation
 btw
4. Emphasized vocational training for manual labor
btw
5. Urged African Americans to strive for the top in education and employment
btw
6. Opposed unions and strikes
web
7. Counseled blacks not to try to solve their problems by leaving the area they
knew best web
8. Insisted that voting rights for black men should be granted immediately
btw
9. Urged protest and agitation to win black equality
btw
10. Said African Americans must gradually rise to equality by working hard in the
positions open to them
web
11. Believed that laws were enforced more strictly against the poor than the rich
web
12. Urged southern whites to see African Americans as their friends in bringing
the South to economic prosperity again.
btw