I just dont know where to begin on these things

1. Booker T washingtonand W.e.b Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and descrimination faced by black americans at the end of the 19th and begining of the 20th centuries.

Using yourk nowledge of the period 1877- 191, assesss the appropriatness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which each was developed...

if sumone could give me help on what the documents are reallly saying that would be great... thanks