Question
Which of the following best describes Washington’s attitude toward African Americans’ quest for civil rights in the South?
A He believed that African Americans deserved and would one day achieve equal civil rights but that those rights would have to be given freely by white Southerners.
B He believed that African Americans were inherently inferior to whites and should thus accept an inferior social and legal status for perpetuity.
C He believed that civil rights could be achieved only through active and concerted political organization and through an insistence on the right to vote.
D He believed that African Americans deserved equal civil rights but was pessimistic that white Southerners would ever allow them to claim those rights.
This question is taken from English 2070 – American Literature from the Late 19th Century to the Present » Spring 2022 » Booker T. Washington, from Up From Slavery Quiz
