How were African Americans to achieve freedom and equality, prosperity, and full citizenship after emancipation from slavery?

The Collective Approach

Strengths the Individual Approach:

It grasps the spirit of a commercial, industrial age in the grip of a Darwinian struggle for survival.

It functions as a guidebook for individual survival when ex-slaves lack sophisticated skills for competition in a capitalist age.

Problems with the Individual Approach:

It accepts the structure of competitive capitalism which makes "cooperation" as a mode of interaction nearly impossible --within the black race and between blacks and whites.

It cannot move African Americans closer to liberty and equality, prosperity, and full citizenship.

Economic rights cannot be protected without political power.

Vocational education without higher education creates a vacuum in black leadership.

Accommodation to white people does not result in progress; rather it results in further accommodation.

Blacks must be able to cooperate with each other, protect their economic rights, and develop a leadership cadre capable of demanding justice now!

`Make Your Choice`

Dudley Randall

W.E.B. DuBois

Justice Now!

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How were African Americans to achieve freedom and equality, prosperity, and full citizenship after emancipation from slavery?

The Collective Approach

Strengths the Individual Approach:

It grasps the spirit of a commercial, industrial age in the grip of a Darwinian struggle for survival.

It functions as a guidebook for individual survival when ex-slaves lack sophisticated skills for competition in a capitalist age.

Problems with the Individual Approach:

It accepts the structure of competitive capitalism which makes "cooperation" as a mode of interaction nearly impossible --within the black race and between blacks and whites.

It cannot move African Americans closer to liberty and equality, prosperity, and full citizenship.

Economic rights cannot be protected without political power.

Vocational education without higher education creates a vacuum in black leadership.

Accommodation to white people does not result in progress; rather it results in further accommodation.

Blacks must be able to cooperate with each other, protect their economic rights, and develop a leadership cadre capable of demanding justice now!

Make Your Choice

Dudley Randall W.E.B. DuBois Justice Now!

`Make Your Choice`

Dudley Randall

W.E.B. DuBois

Justice Now!