Booker T. Washington And W. E. B. Dubois

Two significant African American leaders with different beliefs for achieving racial advancement and equality in the United States first came to in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When it came to addressing the subject of race in America, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois had different techniques, and their beliefs frequently ran counter to one another. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois both believed in having African Americans gain their freedom and civil rights but their ideologies to get there differed. Their philosophies will be displayed to show how similar and different they are.

To empower African Americans, Booker T. Washington promoted economic independence and industrial education. He had the opinion that African

DuBois thought that African People should pursue education and intellectual growth. He made the case that education should incorporate both vocational training and a liberal arts education. DuBois explains “And when we call for education we mean real education. We believe in work. We ourselves are workers, but work is not necessarily education. Education is the development of power and ideal. We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be, and we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and underlings, or simply for the use of other people” (DuBois) which shows his ideas of wanting education for everyone. He felt that African American people should be allowed to pursue their academic interests and objectives without facing discrimination and that education should serve to uplift the entire African American community, not just a small number of individuals. For African Americans, DuBois also emphasized the need for political and civil liberties, stating that these were essential for growth and true equality. Equality for all and not just some is very important to understand. DuBois received a degree from Harvard which pushed him to fight for education rights for all and was the reason for his success he

Washington supported the gradualist theory, which held that racial progress could only be made gradually through time. As more African Americans gained economic success, he thought that African American people should work within the nation's current social and economic systems and that change would come gradually. On the other side, DuBois supported the notion of drastic and immediate change DuBois wanted things to change drastically and very fast. He claimed that African People should demand equal rights and contest the social hierarchies that now