this presentation is going to explain the similarities and differences between many influential...

This presentation is going to explain the similarities and differences between many influential civil rights leaders such as Booker T. Washington,

W.E.B. DuBois, and others.

A RAISIN IN THE SUNCREATED BY: ERIK ANDERSON

Booker T. Washington

• Believed that blacks should focus their energy on education and learning a skill so they could become employed and self-supporting

• Created Tuskegee Institute that was supposed to be a model for black self-improvement through education

• Invited to speak at the International Exposition in Atlanta

• Speech made blacks cry and whites cheer.

How His Ideas Relate to ARITS :

• Bennie was involved in school

• Goes hand in hand with Booker T. Washington’s philosophy to become educated and self-supporting.

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

W.E.B. DuBois

• Provided a philosophical basis for the Harlem Renaissance

• Graduated high school valedictorian and enrolled in Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee

• Helped found the Niagara movement which became re-structured as the NAACP.

• Popular writer, scholar, and leading Afro-American intellectual of the time

W.E.B. DUBOISHow His Ideas Relate to ARITS :

• Believed in the advancement of colored people

• Youngers bought the house; moving up in the world.

MARTIN LUTHER KING