Assignment: Reactions to Jim Crow

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois’s Approaches to Jim Crow

Read the articles from the previous readings  (Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Exposition” and W.E.B. DuBois’s “Souls of Black Folk.”)

Write two paragraphs (one for each man/document). Each paragraph should address the following:

  1. What is the author’s argument concerning what black Americans should do in response to the onset of Jim Crow laws?
  2. Briefly, summarize why each man feels that way. What are his reasons for suggesting what he does?