NUTR 214 Lecture 10: 1.29.18 - top-down uplift cont
8 Aug 2018
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Top-down uplift: ppl at the top can use their resources to lift other ppl up + improve us. Segregation, terroristic violence, unequal law, voting rights. Strategies for progress + uplift actively debated by african american reformers. Head of hampton normal and agricultural institute (f. 1868) and tuskegee. Aimed at helping african americans at self-improvement and economic self-sufficiency (esp. capitalist self-sufficiency) Focused on progress as education, entrepreneurship, community-building. 1895: atlanta compromise (stopped focusing on congressional things, more focus on individual communities - raised lots of $ b/c capitalists found this soothing) wouldn"t become slaves again. Goal: be left alone, make sure ppl were self-sufficient so they. Seen by many as leader of black community at end of 1800s - lots of ppl didn"t like his vision (wanted more focus on civil rights, legal rights, etc. but also didn"t want to be sharecroppers. Opposition to booker t. washington"s approach (thought it was perpetuating slavery under a different name)
