Q&A - RECONSTRUCTION/INDUSTRIAL AGE (1865-1920)

Question 1

What was the outcome of:

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)

[the supreme court decision]

Answer 1

The supreme court ruled that the “Jim Crow Laws” were constitutional, by interpretting the 14th ammendment as not specifically preventing “equal” segregation, it only mentions unequal treatment.

Question 2

Booker T. Washington

favored what type of education for African Americans?

Answer 2

He believed the best type of education for black people is to learn about laborous jobs and the philosophy and business practices that helps people work those jobs.

Question 3

W. E. B. DuBois

favored what type of education for African Americans?

Answer 3

“WEB Du Bois [thought] higher education [was] one of the [best] tools of emancipation for the Black community—a way to [remove] the… economic, political, and social conditions that were… [called] the “Negro Problem””

-Laura A. Wendling, The Journal of Negro Education

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JDp5Tq2PexgrnQxEc6Q5KzN475M0EQpTdYkSF-Zzt84/edit?usp=sharing