CHUNK 1 1 Rev J Edward Nash Buffalo
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Rev. J. Edward Nash, Buffalo, New York The Mighty Current: The Niagara Movement and Black Economics in Early 20 th Century America WEB Du. Bois Great Barrington, Massachusetts Mary B. Talbert , Buffalo, New York 2
Materials Needed: • Loose-leaf paper or notebook • Pencil or pen 3
Launch: Look closely at the picture. Jot down 1 interesting thing you notice in the photograph and 1 interesting thing you wonder about the photograph. 4
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Buffalo, NY 8
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Mary B. Talbert 11
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Reverend Edward J. Nash 13
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Learning Target Review: I can explain how the Niagara Movement began in Buffalo, NY and sought to address political and social issues in America. 17
Learning Target Review: I can write to make and support claims with clear reasons and relevant primary source evidence. 18
FOCUS QUESTIONS: Who was W. E. B. Du. Bois? What was the Niagara Movement? 19
W. E. B Du. Bois SET UP: The Niagara Movement 20
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W. E. B Du. Bois SET UP: The Niagara Movement 22
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W. E. B Du. Bois SET UP: The Niagara Movement 24
How did W. E. B Du. Bois and the Niagara Movement impact the ways in which Black Americans were able to make and spend money (economics)? 25
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How did W. E. B Du. Bois and the Niagara Movement impact the ways in which Black Americans were able to make and spend money (economics)? 27
SET UP: How did W. E. B Du. Bois and the Niagara Movement impact the ways in which Black Americans were able to make and spend money (economics)? 28
Definition: Definition in your own words: Synonym: Drawing/Sketch: economics Non-Example: 29
Definition: Economics is how money is made and used within a particular country or region. A region's economy is connected with things like how many goods and services are produced and how much money people can spend on these things. Definition in your own words: How people make and spend money Synonym: economics Non-Example: business, finance unprofitable Drawing/Sketch: 30
SET UP: How did W. E. B Du. Bois and the Niagara Movement impact the ways in which Black Americans were able to make and spend money (economics)? 31
CLOSE READ: Primary Source Document The Niagara Movement: Declaration of Principles, 1905 32
Economic Opportunity: We especially complain against the denial of equal opportunities to us in economic life; in the rural districts of the South this amounts to virtual slavery; all over the South it tends to crush labor and small business enterprises; and everywhere American prejudice, helped often by iniquitous laws, is making it more difficult for Negro-Americans to earn a decent living. 33
Education: Common school education should be free to all American children and compulsory. High school training should be adequately provided for all, and college training should be the monopoly of no class or race in any section of our common country. We urge an increase in public high school facilities in the South, where the Negro-Americans are almost wholly without such provisions. We favor well-equipped trade and technical schools for the training of artisans, and the need of adequate and liberal endowment for a few institutions of higher education must be patent to sincere well-wishers of the race. 34
Employers and Labor Unions: We hold up for public execration the conduct of two opposite classes of men: The practice among employers of importing ignorant Negro-American laborers in emergencies, and then affording them neither protection nor permanent employment; and the practice of labor unions in proscribing and boycotting and oppressing thousands of their fellow-toilers, simply because they are black. These methods have accentuated and will accentuate the war of labor and capital, and they are disgraceful to both sides. 35
SET UP: How did W. E. B Du. Bois and the Niagara Movement impact Black economics (make and spend money)? “denial of equal opportunities to us in economic life” “virtual slavery…tends to crush labor and small business enterprises” “education should be free” “increase in public high school facilities and wellequipped trade and technical schools” “employers of importing ignorant Negro-American laborers… then affording them neither protection nor permanent employment” “labor unions…oppressing thousands of their fellowtoilers… because they are black” 36
MODEL ANSWER: W. E. B Du. Bois and the Niagara Movement impacted Black economics in America because they fought for the rights of Black Americans. As the Declaration of Principles states, there was a “denial of equal opportunities to us in economic life” that “tends to crush labor and small business enterprises. ” This quote shows that the Niagara Movement pointed out how unequal economic opportunities were in America. The Declaration of Principles also states that they wanted an “increase in public high school facilities and well-equipped trade and technical schools. ” This quote shows how the Niagara Movement believed in the power of schooling to increase economic opportunities. In closing, W. E. B. Dubois and the Niagara Movement fought to increase the rights of Black Americans, especially in the area of working and economics. -Jamari Shaw Jr. , BPS 80 RESTATE and ANSWER the QUESTION Support EVIDENCE #1 INSIGHT Support EVIDENCE #2 INSIGHT CONCLUSION 37
Buffalo, NY 38
Mary B. Talbert 39
Reverend Edward J. Nash 40
W. E. B Du. Bois 41
1909 Present Day The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 42
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