Booker T. and W.E.B
The last names of Booker T. and W.E.B
(Booker T.) Washington and (W.E.B.) Du Bois
Name one of the cities that many African Americans moved to during the Great Migration
Answers vary: Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, etc.
Liberty
Freedom
Which of the two men had three college degrees
W.E.B. Du Bois
Name one reason that African Americans left the South in large numbers during the Great Migration
Answers vary: Lynching, Jim Crow laws/segregation, racism in the courts, chain gangs/policing, child labor, sharecropping, more job opportunities/better jobs in North
Humanize
to describe or draw a person in a way that emphasizes how that person is human or unique
Which of the men was born into slavery and worked in a salt factory growing up?
Booker T. Washington
What is the connection between 'Jacob Lawrence' and the Great Migration?
He painted the Migration series which is a set of 60 paintings showing the Great Migration in many different ways
Segregation
separating people apart based on something
Who believed in a "Talented Tenth" that would be the top 10 percent of African Americans sent to the best colleges to be educated?
W.E.B. Du Bois
What does this panel of Jacob Lawrence's migration series show: https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2015/onewayticket/panel/5/
A train- the railroad was an important way that migrants got to the North
Stereotype
overly simple description of a group of people
Who believed that financial independence was the most important way to eventually get equality?
Booker T. Washington
What was the Great Migration
Answer should include:
African Americans, moving North Cities in large numbers, leaving Southern racism behind, seeking jobs/better life in Northern cities
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that targeted African Americans by segregating them and treating them worse