04.08 Testing Tips: Analyzing Documents

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The excerpt below is from the General Introduction to Tuskegee and Its People by Booker T. Washington: Institutions, like individuals, are properly judged by their ideals, their methods, and their achievements in the production of men and women who are to do the world's work One school is better than another in proportion as its system touches the more pressing needs of the people it aims to serve, and provides the more speedily and satisfactorily the elements that bring to them honorable and enduring his environments, trend of ambition, natural capacity, possible opportunities in the proposed calling, and the means at his command. woman, who would lay the foundation of a career, The choice of the school to which one will go and the calling he will adopt must be influenced in a very large measure by success in the struggle of life. Education of some kind is the first essential of the young man, or young struggles, and triumphs can not fail to be of absorbing interest to the great body of American people, more particularly to the student of educational theories and their the training that would offer them the widest range of usefulness in the activities open to the masses of the Negro people. Their hopes, fears, strength, weaknesses, In the past twenty-four years thousands of the youth of this and other lands have elected to come to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute to secure what they deem attendant results. Why does Washington think thousands of young people have attended Tuskegee Institute since it opened?
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They sought receive training in useful, industrial activities
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The excerpt below is from "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" in The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois: Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things,- First, political power, Second, insistence on civil rights, Third, higher education of Negro youth,-and has been courageously and insistently advocated for over fifteen years, and has been triumphant for perhaps ten years. As a result of this tender of the palm-branch, what concentrate all their energies on industrial education, and accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South. This policy has been the return? In these years there have occurred: 1. The disfranchisement of the Negro. 2. The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro. 3. The steady withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of the Negro. without a shadow of doubt, helped their speedier political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meager chance for accomplishment. The question then comes: Is it possible, and probable, that nine millions of men These movements are not, to be sure, direct results of Mr. Washington's teachings; but his propaganda has, developing their exceptional men? If history and reason give any distinct answer to these can make effective progress in economic lines if they are deprived of questions, it is an emphatic NO. What three things does DuBois state are the goals of Washington's agenda for the black people?
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industrial education, accumulation of wealth, conciliation of the South
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The excerpt below is from the General Introduction to Tuskegee and Its People by Booker T. Washington: Institutions, like individuals, are properly judged by their ideals, their methods, and their achievements in the production of men and women who are to do the world's work. One school is better than another in proportion as its system touches the more pressing needs of the people it aims to serve, and provides the more speedily and satisfactorily the elements that bring to them honorable and enduring success in the struggle of life. Education of some kind is the first essential of the young man, or young woman, who would lay the foundation of a career. The choice of the school to which one will go and the calling he will adopt must be influenced in a very large measure by his environments, trend of ambition, natural capacity, possible opportunities in the proposed calling, and the means at his command. In the past twenty-four years thousands of the youth of this and other lands have elected to come to the Tuskegee the training that would offer them the widest range of usefulness in the activities open to the masses of the Negro people. Their hopes, fears, strength, weaknesses, to the great body of American people, more particularly to the student of educational theories and their Normal and Industrial Institute to secure what they deem struggles, and triumphs can not fail to be of absorbing interest attendant results. According to Washington, what problem does education resolve?
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Education teaches how to be successful in work and everyday struggles
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The excerpt below is from "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" in The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois: Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things,- First, political power, Second, insistence on civil rights, Third, higher education of Negro youth,-and has been courageously and insistently advocated for over fifteen years, and has been concentrate all their energies on industrial education, and accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South. This policy triumphant for perhaps ten years. As a result of this tender of the palm-branch, what has been the return? In these years there have occurred: 1. The disfranchisement of the Negro. 2. The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro. 3. The steady withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of the Negro. These movements are not, to be sure, direct results of Mr. Washington's teachings: but his propaganda has, accomplishment. The question then comes: Is it possible, and probable, that nine millions of men can make effective without a shadow of doubt, helped their speedier progress in economic lines if they are deprived of political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meager chance for developing their exceptional men? If history and reason give any distinct answer to these questions, it is an emphatic NO. By following Washington and not insisting on civil rights, what has been the effect for the black people according to DuBois?
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A distinct status of civil inferiority has been created
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The excerpt below is from "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" in The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois: Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things,- First, political power, Second, insistence on civil rights, Third, higher education of Negro youth,-and concentrate ail their energies on industrial education, and accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South. This policy has been courageously and insistently advocated for over fifteen years, and has been triumphant for perhaps ten years. As a result of this tender of the palm-branch, what has been the return? In these years there have occurred: 1. The disfranchisement of the Negro. 2. The legal creation of a distinct 3. The steady withdrawal of aid from status of civil inferiority for the Negro. institutions for the higher training of the Negro. These movements are not, to be sure, direct results of Mr. Washington's teachings; but his propaganda has, accomplishment. The question then comes: Is it possible, and probable, that nine millions of men without a shadow of doubt, helped their speedier can make effective progress in economic lines if they are deprived of political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meager chance for developing their exceptional men? If history and reason give any distinct answer to these questions, it is an emphatic NO. What does DuBois conclude is the cause of economic progress?
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People must be given political rights, civil rights, and an education