Background & Beliefs
This state was W.E.B Du Bois born in?
What is Massachusetts?
What year was the Niagara Movement was founded?
What is 1905?
Du Bois helped co-found this civil rights organization in 1909.
What is NAACP
Du Bois was active during this major reform period in U.S. history.
What is the Progressive Era?
What big university did the boys attend?
Harvard
What historically Black college did Du Dois attend before Harvard?
What is Fisk University?
The Niagara Movement demanded immediate access to what essential democratic right?
What is voting rights?
Du Bois used this magazine to expose racial injustice nationwide.
What is The Crisis?
The NAACP later helped win this landmark Supreme Court case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
When was the boys born ?
1868
Du Bois became the first African American to earn this degree from Harvard in 1895
What is a PhD?
This Niagara Movement directly opposed the ideas of this African American leader.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The NAACP primarily fought segregation using this strategy.
What is legal action through the courts?
What was Du Bois’s ideas that influenced this 20th-century movement?
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
What does NAACP stand for
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What European country influenced Du Bois's sociological thinking while he studied abroad?
What is Germany?
Why was the Niagara Movement was considered radical during the Progressive Era?
What is that it demanded immediate civil rights instead of gradual reform or accommodation?
How did the NAACP reflect Progressive Era reform values.
What is its use of law, research, experts, and federal power?
Why is Du Bois considered a bridge between Progressive reform and later activism.
What is, that he introduced immediate equality and legal protest strategies?
Who the better host
Statistically Kevin (Backed up by research)
How Du Bois' upbringing in an integrated Northern town shaped his views on racial equality.
What is that it showed him racial integration was possible and segregation was not natural or inevitable?
Whats a major reason the Niagara Movement failed despite its strong demands.
What is lack of funding, internal divisions, and strong white opposition?
How did the NAACP reflect on Progressive Era beliefs about the role of government in reform.
What is that, the government should intervene through laws and courts to protect citizens’ rights?
How did Du Bois reshaped American democracy?
What is that, democracy requires full civil rights for all citizens?
Who dressed better?
Kevin 100% (without a doubt)