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Activity 1 - Progress of a People

Solving the Race Problem Ticket
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Examine these two documents, then answer questions in the Learning Guide below.


Learning Guide

Answer the following questions about the documents above. You may want to examine the full text as well as the excerpt.

Industrial Education Pamphlet - "Nineteenth Annual Report of the Tuskegee Institute" by Booker T. Washington

  1. Why were schools such as Tuskegee Institute significant in advancing the causes of African Americans?
  2. What was some of the criticism of the Tuskegee Institute?
  3. Why could Booker T. Washington be viewed as a hypocrite?

Full text of "Nineteenth Annual Report of the Tuskegee Institute"


Higher Education Pamphlet - "The Primary Needs of the Negro Race" by Kelly Miller

  1. What was meant by "practical education" at the Hampton & Tuskegee Institutes?
  2. What kind of education did the Niagara Movement support?
  3. What view of education did Kelley Miller support?

"Full text of "The Primary Needs of the Negro Race"

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