Examine the factors that impacted African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century including migration, education, politics and the arts.

Assignment objectives:
1. Examine the factors that impacted African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century including migration, education, politics and the arts.
2. Identify the race leaders of the era and their philosophies.

Debate one:
I’m just young boy who grew up in the south not knowing how to read or write.
I support W.E.B. Du Bois because he was a man who did not receive things easy. Wanting to attend Harvard, but he could not because they would accept him as a black man, but as one their premier students. He excelled in school at Fisk University to where he attended for only 3 years. There is where he experienced things that he never had experienced before because he was from the north. Down south things were a lot different. He was introduce to poverty there. He came upon blacks who could not read or write. He was witnessing the experience of people who have never been taught a school lesson. He wanted to educate black men and women.
W.E.B. Du Bois wanted the facts that way he can interpreted thing himself. He wanted blacks in the south to be able to vote, the right to have an education and be treated with equality and justice. Du Bois’s refers to the Atlanta Comprise as the most notable thing in Mr. Washington career. He also took it as a different way as did the South. It was seen as a complete surrender for political equality. He wanted to educate. Du Bois defended liberal arts education throughout his career. Arguing that education should make men and citizens, not make them mere labourers.
It was also during his time when he was in Germany trying to achieve his Doctrine his German peers resented him because he was way smarter than them. He saw race and being black as a positive and not a negative and wanted to explore that positivity.

Professor Maurice Jackson on the philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois https://www.c-span.org/video/?405866-1/discussion-philosophy-web-du-bois
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm
Ellis, Bryan R. Ethnic & Racial Studies. Feb2017, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p485-487. 3p. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1248997

Debate 2
I’m just young boy who grew up in the south not knowing how to read or write.
I support W.E.B. Du Bois because he was a man who did not receive things easy. Wanting to attend Harvard, but he could not because they would accept him as a black man, but as one their premier students. He excelled in school at Fisk University to where he attended for only 3 years. There is where he experienced things that he never had experienced before because he was from the north. Down south things were a lot different. He was introduce to poverty there. He came upon blacks who could not read or write. He was witnessing the experience of people who have never been taught a school lesson. He wanted to educate black men and women.
W.E.B. Du Bois wanted the facts that way he can interpreted thing himself. He wanted blacks in the south to be able to vote, the right to have an education and be treated with equality and justice. Du Bois’s refers to the Atlanta Comprise as the most notable thing in Mr. Washington career. He also took it as a different way as did the South. It was seen as a complete surrender for political equality. He wanted to educate. Du Bois defended liberal arts education throughout his career. Arguing that education should make men and citizens, not make them mere labourers.
It was also during his time when he was in Germany trying to achieve his Doctrine his German peers resented him because he was way smarter than them. He saw race and being black as a positive and not a negative and wanted to explore that positivity.

Professor Maurice Jackson on the philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois https://www.c-span.org/video/?405866-1/discussion-philosophy-web-du-bois
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm
Ellis, Bryan R. Ethnic & Racial Studies. Feb2017, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p485-487. 3p. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1248997

The initial post must be written in character supporting your assigned position and then you are required to continue the debate by posting responses to the arguments of a minimum of two peers assigned to the opposing group. Whatever you write should be in character. Be creative! Remember that everything you argue, although in character, must be grounded in academic research and must demonstrate you have done the required work.