AP African American Studies / Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom
3.8 Lifting as We Climb: Uplift Ideologies and Black Women's Rights and Leadership
Notes
Booker T. Washington emphasized vocational education and economic progress (the Atlanta Compromise, 1895). Du Bois called for full rights and the "Talented Tenth." Black women's clubs (National Association of Colored Women, motto "Lifting as We Climb," Mary Church Terrell) worked for uplift and suffrage.
Practice
Booker T. Washington emphasized:
Tuskegee Institute.
The NACW's motto was:
Black women's clubs.
Du Bois disagreed with Washington by demanding:
Talented Tenth.
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