Referring to the feature boxes, "Who's Getting What? The Stonewall Riots" and "The Game, the Rules, the Players: African American Politics in Historical Perspective,"

Question

demonstrate how the pre-Stonewall gay rights movement compares to the approach to civil rights for blacks espoused by Booker T. Washington.

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Answer:
An ideal response will:
1. Detail the accommodation to segregation response of Washington who was the foremost African American advocate of accommodation to segregation. His hopes for black America lay in a program of self-help through education. Washington urged his students to stay in the South, acquire land, and build homes, thereby helping eliminate ignorance and poverty and in effect, making the best of segregation. Combined with the approach of W.E.B. Du Bois, of black resistance, protest, and the political mobilization of blacks in the North, the civil rights movement moved forward.
2. Describe how the movement for gay rights similarly involved a quiet, conformist approach advanced by groups such as Mattachine. The conservative, nearly philosophical approach to protest and recognition was overwhelmed by openly gay, openly identified groups that refused to minimize sexuality in their organizations or their movement. The riots at Stonewall was a rebellion reflecting that the movement for gay rights was not governed by quiet, assimilative strategies but by demands for open recognition in society and under the law.
3. Make connections between the assimilation and protest approaches present in each movement for civil rights.