About This Lesson
This handout has students read excerpts from the writings of W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and Ida B. Wells. After each reading, the students need to explain if the activist was focusing on social, political, and/or economic advice, summarize their advice for black people, and then evaluate if they think this would work to help African-Americans during the Jim Crow Era. Finally, students need to analyze which person has the most useful strategy for helping African-American people. There is a modified version of the handout on pages 7-10 that are shorter and adapted for lower-level readers.
