120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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“I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate, I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time.” This is the story of a hardening Jim Crow color line. Lynchings and race riots. Black troops in Brownsville being summarily discharged “without honor.” Black Americans are indeed watching as Reconstruction-Era progress erodes. What can they do? Booker T. Washington has a vision. This Southerner of self-reliance–a former slave who’s gained an education and built an incredible place of learning in Tuskegee, Alabama–believes it’s about perseverance. Economy. Work. Black Americans, he believes, will thereby prove their worth–and rights will follow. But some, like, W.E.B. Du Bois, disagree. The Northerner and prolifically publishing scholar believes in making bold demands for equality. Not tomorrow. Today. The divergence of their paths will only grow as the Progressive Era marches on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Advisory. This episode contains accounts of racial violence and murder that some listeners
0:04.2	might find disturbing.
0:05.6	List or discretion is advised.
0:08.2	History that doesn't suck is a bi-weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched
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0:34.5	It's October 16, 1901, just a few minutes before 7.30pm. A 46-year-old man with close-crop
0:41.7	hair, olive skin, and dressed in a smart black suit, is riding in a carriage through the streets
0:47.3	of Washington, D.C. to the White House.
0:49.8	He's a tad anxious.
0:52.0	Not that this is his first visit.
0:54.0	No, no. In the month since William McKinley was assassinated in Theodore Roosevelt's
0:58.8	office, the new president has already made it clear to this educator, Southerner, and
1:03.6	most influential of black Americans that his counsel is very much desired.
1:07.3	TR has already had him over, but this is different.
1:11.4	Tonight, this gentleman, a Mr. Booker T. Washington, is going to the White House as the US president's
1:18.1	invited dinner guest.
1:21.5	Turning up 1600 Pennsylvania's circular drive, the carriage comes to a stop under the White
1:26.7	House's iconic, pillard, pork co-share.
1:30.4	What thoughts must be going through Booker's mind?
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