Read the excerpt from Booker T. Washington's

speech delivered at the opening of the Cotton States
and International Exposition in 1895.

While we take pride in what we exhibit as a result of
our independent efforts, we do not for a moment
forget that our part in this exhibition would fall far short
of your expectations but for the constant help that has
come to our education life, not only from the Southern
states, but especially from Northern philanthropists.

Read the excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk by
W. E. B. Du Bois.

First, it is the duty of black men to judge the South
discriminatingly. The present generation of
Southerners are not responsible for the past, and they
should not be blindly hated or blamed for it.
Furthermore, to no class is the indiscriminate
endorsement of the recent course of the South toward

What evidence do the two texts have in common?

A. They both excuse the wrongdoing of the South.

B. They both focus on individual efforts.

C. They both point out that the South has not been
solely oppressive.

D. They both see the South as exhibiting a history of
oppression.