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Early Civil Rights Movements — Quiz

Question 6 • US History

Read the quotation by W. E. B. Du Bois. “We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults.” In this quotation, Du Bois disagrees with Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist approach because Du Bois believes that

Answer
A
submitting to discrimination will help end inequality.
B
temporarily accepting discrimination will not lead to equality.
C
fighting to end inequality could offend some people.
D
working toward equality for all is an important pursuit.
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