Question

read the excerpt from booker t. washingtons 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 for 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 discriminately. 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 negroes more nauseating than to the best thought of
what evidence do the two texts have in common?
they both excuse the wrongdoing of the south
they both focus on individual efforts.
they both point out that the south has not been solely oppressive.
they both see the south as exhibiting a history of oppression.

Explanation:

Washington's speech mentions that the South (especially Northern philanthropists) helped in education, showing the South wasn't only bad. Du Bois says Southerners aren't responsible for the past and shouldn't be blindly hated, also indicating the South isn't solely oppressive.

Answer:

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