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Handout L: Documents Organizer

Documents Organizer

Directions: Fill in the information indicated in order to compare, contrast, and analyze the documents provided. Then use the documents along with your background knowledge to respond to the Key Question.

KEY QUESTION: Which, if any, of the varying approaches advocated by black leaders during the period from 1865-1920 do you believe was the most likely to achieve equality and lead to protection of the rights of blacks? To what extent and in what ways did conditions for American blacks change in the era?

 

Additional Activities

Handout B: Ida B. Wells, Lynch Law 1893 Excerpts

Handout C: Booker T. Washington: The Atlanta Exposition Address 1895 Excerpts

Handout D: John Hope We Are Struggling for Equality 1896 Excerpts

Handout E: John Marshall Harlan, Dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

Handout F: W.E.B. DuBois, The Talented Tenth 1903

Handout G: W.E.B. DuBois: Letter to a Black Schoolgirl, 1905

Handout H: Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles 1905 Excerpts

Handout I: Woodrow Wilson and the Negro Question

Handout J: Walter White, The Eruption of Tulsa Nation June 29, 1921 Excerpts