II.
Booker T. Washington (1895)
A.
Occasion/Audience
B.
To African Americans
1. Start at bottom; work to top
2. “Dignify and glorify common
labor” (122)
3. Become useful citizen (123)
4. Economic, not political
opportunity (124)
C.
To white Southerner
1.
Employ
African Americans, not foreigners (122)
2.
A
patient, faithful, devoted labor force (122)
3.
No
fear of social equality (124)
D.
Prosperous New South
E.
Metaphor of hand (122)
III.
W. E. B. Du Bois (1897)
B.
Opportunity (144, 149)
1.Spiritual as well as economic
2. Souls v. hands
C. Metaphor of the Veil (142)
D. Double consciousness (143)
IV.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
A.
Majority opinion
1.
Is separate but equal
constitutional?
2.
13th Amendment (42-43)
3.
14th Amendment
a.
Intention (44)
b.
Reasonable (50)
c.
Logical fallacy (50)
B.
Harlan's dissent
1.
13th Amendment
"badges of
servitude" (59)
2.
14th Amendment
a. intention (54-5)
b. not reasonable, but
constitutional:
"color-blind" (57)
c. not logic, but
history:
“thin disguise” (59)