Booker T Washington Speech Analysis

Du Bois focuses on Booker T. Washington's rise to success, and what his rise meant both for America and for the American Negro. Washington, a well-known American of African family origins, came to popularity in the country after Americans had begun to feel serious about the treatment of African-Americans. Du Bois argues that radicals saw Washington speech as an act of giving up in a fight to the white race. Washington believed that the African-American needed to focus on personal development. Washington had asked for African-Americans to give up their right to vote, to free speech, to fair and equal treatment, etc. Instead of focusing on gaining state where all things are equal and the right to vote, to free speech, to fair and equal treatment,

Du Bois lives in a world in which a color line divides all life into two parts. One part is enjoying a lot of special treatment, money, and other advantages in life and white, and it uses for selfish reasons other part that is held back and black. Du Bois explains that although Mr. Washington was very famous and important and successful man, his personality was not always very pleasant. Mr. Washington was responsible for developing an industrial education, giving in to demands to calm everyone down of the South, Du Bois respectfully speak of Mr. Washington's problems and mistakes of his career and how although he supported the people of color, he also at one time went against them. While DuBoise agrees that Washington was a leader in the African American community, he points out that Washington had both good and bad qualities about him. DuBois talks about the things that Washington had done for African Americans, but at the same time a Washington often said what the white man wanted to hear and this most likely damaged the agreement or interfered with the positive direction the African Americans were heading toward . As I read the chapter I was able to have an understanding of being trapped between two worlds and deciding which one to belong. It was interesting to read how Mr. Washington apologizes for terribly unfair treatment that has happened and how we must work hard for the rights of every man. My question is