Author Question: What role did race play in the lives of the buffalo soldiers in the West? How were they treated by ... (Read 53 times)

newbem · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

What role did race play in the lives of the buffalo soldiers in the West? How were they treated by Indians and whites?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What were W. E. B. Du Bois's ideas about education for blacks compared to Booker T. Washington's ideas? Why did they disagree so often about strategy and tactics?

What will be an ideal response?

b614102004 · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 9, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define buffalo soldiers as a term Native Americans most likely gave to blacks serving as soldiers in the West.
2. Define black roles as fighting Native Americans and doing basic duties at western frontier army outposts.
3. Explain that black soldiers experienced racial discrimination and hatred from Native Americans, though Indian allies praised them.
4. Conclude that blacks in general faced discrimination in local western towns and cities.
5. Conclude that race played an important and complex role in the black western experience.

Answer to Question 2

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the ideology of Du Bois as the talented tenth, higher educational subjects, civil rights, and social integration.
2. Define Washington as focusing on industrial education, social segregation, and economic uplift in partnership with whites.
3. Explain that Du Bois was a student of Washington but they broke on the issue of how blacks should attain equality based on the differences outlined above.
4. Conclude that the two men represent a transition in black history from accommodation to a more direct call for integration.