Literature and Livestock written assignment

 Mario Andrews

12/1/2025

Dr. Harris

Engl 2016


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Literature and Livestock written assignment

The Formation of HBCUS is seen as a net positive for now but was seen as one of the most divisive moves in the Black community during reconstruction. The debate back then was between Vocational and formal education and the universities founded reflected that. Institutions such as Howard differed from Tuskegee in function and leadership

In the Atlanta compromise, Booker T Washington  spoke about his compromise to the White World, to to train, and send out the Black youth and make them suitable for employment based on the foundations of the recently banned slavery. W.E.B Dubois disagreed with this and came up with a different proposal. His “Talented Tenth" would educate the best tenth of any given population and send them back to elevate their community, Trickle down education if you will. 

In modern times universities such as Southern A&M use both fields to educate Black communities with focuses in both engineering and nursing. The purpose of my proposed class offered to juniors, is to go over the base ideals of both W.E.B Dubois and Booker T Washington, apply that thinking to modern HBCUs and propose another avenue of thinking to this argument. By visiting a modern HBCU in Grambling University. During the class we will also be looking at the job opportunities of both fields as another metric of how well both men’s arguments hold up in modern time. 

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