Week 7: Writing Response – Booker T. Washington

Please respond using your own original writing voice and from your personal informed perspective (first person point of view).

Writing Response Reading:

From Slavery, Chapter I. A Slave Among Slaves, The Atlanta Exposition by Booker T. Washington in the African American Literature Anthology digital course textbook, pages 85-102. 

Step 1:

Carefully read the above pages. Take notes while reading; be sure to read the footnotes. After you have a firm understanding of the events of the story, write a one-page response ( 200 words).

Please respond using your own original writing voice and from your personal informed perspective (first person point of view).

Step 2:

If you were an African American living in the early twentieth century or advocate for Americans living in the early twentieth, based on the ideas you read in the above pages, do you think you would follow Washington’s leadership? Why or Why Not? Support your response with what you learn from the above reading.

Please respond using your own original writing voice and from your personal informed perspective (first person point of view).

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