The Plessy Era & Black Resistance
Strategies for survival and progress under the height of Jim Crow.
Key Questions
- 1How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois differ in their approaches to racial progress?
- 2What was the purpose of the Niagara Movement?
- 3How did Black businesses and churches serve as sites of resistance?
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