Write a roughly 500-word essay comparing Booker T. Washington’s strategy of
“racial uplift” with W.E.B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass’s strategy of “self-
assertion” for the advancement of African Americans answering the following
questions
1. What were Du Bois’s objections to Booker T. Washington’s strategy for
what was often termed “racial uplift”? According to Du Bois, how does
Washington “shift the burden of the Negro problem to the Negro’s
shoulders”?
2. What distinctions does Du Bois draw between the leadership of Washington
and Frederick Douglass? What does Du Bois mean by “self-assertion and
self-development”?
Provide your essays with a properly constructed scholarly apparatus: footnotes or
endnotes (I recommend using footnotes). Citations in footnotes or endnotes and
bibliographies (in The Chicago Manual of Style) of works read should give all
necessary information to enable a reader to identify the author and edition of the
work cited, and its date of publication.
