A Joint Interview with Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt
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A 10 page 'interview' with these two leaders in 1901, the year Booker T. Washington published his autobiography after 20 years of success at Tuskegee Institute, and the year during which President William McKinley was assassinated, leaving his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, to take office as President. The 'interview' questions childhood experiences, factors contributing to their success, the importance of good character, party affiliation rationale, the role of blacks in America and the future outlook for them, and America's future overall. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Booker T. Washington's Address
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8 pages in length. Discussion of Booker T. Washington's infamous address at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia (1895). Analyzes speech's effectiveness, organization, motives, and audience from a persuasive communication perspective. Includes relevant terminology and theories cited from 1 communications textbook listed in bibliography.
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DuBois and Washington: Matched Set or Opposite Bookends?
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This five-page-paper compares and contrasts two of the of the most famous civil rights activists in African American history. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois spent their lives as civil rights activists for their people but used different approaches toward the same goal. The differences and similarities are discussed along with explanations as to how those differences came to be. Bibliography lists four sources.
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The Importance of Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois to African-American Education & Intellectual Thought
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A 5 page paper which examines the diverse influences of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in terms of early twentieth-century African-American education and intellectual thought, including their differing definitions of education, their interpretations of education to the freed slave, the basis for their beliefs, and a consideration of Washington's 'Atlanta Compromise.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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W.E.B. Du Bois vs. Booker T. Washington
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A 5 page research paper and analysis of the philosophies of early African-American leaders Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. The writer demonstrates how their views were diametrically opposed in many ways although they both wished to accomplish the same purpose. Bibliography lists 2 sources. Duboisw.wps,
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African-American Speeches
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6 pages worth of very short reaction essays to famous speeches and writings of early African-American heroes like Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Sojourner Truth. No outside references are cited.
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Booker T. Washington and the Education of the African American
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A 6 page paper which discusses Booker T. Washington's role as a teacher to his people of African American descent. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Play and Leisure Among Slave Children in the United States
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A 5 page overview of the concepts of play and recreation and how they related to black children during slavery. Emphasizes that play was shaped by the environment and that while black children may have not had much leisure time they assuredly engaged in a diversity of play and leisure activities. These activities could have been as diverse as learning to read, as Frederick Douglass related in his now infamous narratives, to learning complex and often meaningful circular song games. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Tension Between Black Middle Class and Black Folk Tradition
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A 10 page analysis of Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance. The writer argues that these two books are indicative of a body of black literature that examines the conflict and tension that is intrinsic between the intersections of mainstream white culture and the black cultures, which derive from African origins but are mediated by the experience of slavery and oppression. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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This 10 page paper explores the problems with the Emancipation Proclamation. Events which led up to the creation of the document and its ultimate effects are noted. Slavery is also discussed from a Christian perspective. Measures Lincoln could have implemented which would have been more effective are explored. The paper takes the position that the proclamation did not free the slaves which is part of the reason why black people in America continue to be troubled. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The Slave Narrative, White Readership, and the Oral Tradition
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A 5 page paper analyzing five different works by slaves or former slaves (Olaudau Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, David Walker, and Nat Turner) in the light of their reliance on literacy or the oral tradition to further their cause. The paper points out that regardless of whether the intended readership was black or white, black writers of the pre-Civil War period relied heavily on communications arts both to muster opposition to slavery and to encourage blacks not to give up hope. Bibliography lists four sources.
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African-American Influences On Art & Music
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A 5 page research paper on African-American contributions to American culture. The writer demonstrates how African-American culture ha influenced art and music in America since its earliest beginnings and emphasizes the contributions made by the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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