Tag: Chicago Defender
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Write an editorial (300-400 words, or more than 1 page and less than 2) in support of DuBois OR Washington from your persona to one of the following newspapers: Chicago Defender – the leading black newspaper of the day.
Description ooker T. Washington, “Atlanta Compromise” (1895), http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/ . W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (1903), http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/40 (also, see the excerpts that are available in this submodule). Task: First, read both documents carefully Second, create a persona and perspective from which to write. Some suggestions are: a black southern sharecropper. a white…