The Jungle, Atlanta Exposition Speech, and The Souls of Black Folk SPACE Notes

“The Jungle” S - Speaker’s Purpose

Sinclair wrote this to EXPOSE to poor working conditions in Chicago meat packing plants….

“The Jungle” P - Point of View

Meat factories are unsanitary and unsafe for work:

Rotted meat, injured workers, chemical used to preserve meat

“The Jungle” A - Audience

Government, Public/Consumers

“The Jungle” C - Context/Historical Situation

During the Gilded Age; few regulations, labor unions seen as troublemakers…. SO, Journalists “MUCKRAKERS” exposed corruption, abuse of workers, prisoners, monopolies etc… and forced the US/State govs to act to fix problems…

After the Jungle was published in 1906, the US gov passed the “Pure Food and Drug Act” which became later the FDA

“The Jungle” E - Elements

Knives, sausage making, immigrant workers, meat packing industry

Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895) Booker T. Washington S - Speaker’s Purpose

He hoped to persuade southern white businessmen/farmers

To hire Af Americans instead of immigrants

Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895) Booker T. Washington P - Point of View

Af Americans can be trusted, immigrants cannot be trusted because of strikes/labor wars

Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895) Booker T. Washington A - Audience

Southern white businessmen/farmers

Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895) Booker T. Washington C - Context/Historical Situation

Over 90% of Af Americans live in the South…

Jim Crow laws limit voting and employment. Most are

Living in poverty! Lynching. Washington is criticized for as

Being “accommodating” to whites by asking Af Americans

NOT to protest for equality. Slavery ended 30 years before (1865)

Atlanta Exposition Speech (1895) Booker T. Washington E - Elements

Immigrants

Southern whites

Af Americans

“The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) W.E.B. Du Bois S - Speaker’s Purpose

To show Booker T Washington’s speech was

Not helpful to Af Americans in the south.

“The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) W.E.B. Du Bois P - Point of View

DuBois blames Washington for the troubles of Af Americans

Are living under in the south

“The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) W.E.B. Du Bois A - Audience

African Americans of the South

“The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) W.E.B. Du Bois C - Context/Historical Situation

1903: slavery over for 38 years, Jim Crow laws and poverty for Southern Af Americans

“The Souls of Black Folk” (1903) W.E.B. Du Bois E - Elements

WEB (North) Booker T (South), voting, education,