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Compare And Contrast Booker T Washington And Web Du Dubois

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Washington, Du Bois, and Reform During the Gilded Age of the United States, the nation was adapting to the many changes of industrialization, immigration, and reform. The age saw attempts to reconstruct from the Civil War and allow African Americans to adapt and join society. Unfortunately, many southern states were able to create loopholes and regulations such as Jim Crow Laws and literacy tests to marginalize the influence of African American citizens. As a result, African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington and Web Du Bois rose up and tried to fight the oppressive feelings and laws of the age. To begin with, Booker T. Washington was born in 1856 as a slave on a farm in Virginia. As a child, Washington attended the Hampton Institute, …show more content…

One of them being Web Du Bois. Du Bois was an African American born in Massachusetts in 1868. He earned his bachelor's degree at Fisk, and entered Harvard University to further his education. He would be the first African American to earn a P.H.D at Harvard. Du Bois had opposite views of Washington. Instead of slowly working up to equality through economic prosperity, Du bois wanted to fight for equality now. One prime example of Du Bois's beliefs being put in effect was the organization of the Niagara Movement. The movement looked to fight and end segregation in society, courts, and public accommodations. The Movement attacked Washington’s Atlanta Compromise and refuted the idea of economic prosperity. Even though the movement gained some attention, it did not reach its standards or goals. As a result, Du Bois and others formed the National Association for the advancement of colored people. The NAACP had a much greater impact on African American progress than the Niagara Movement. The group focused on the same goals as the previous movement, but also added other ones such as police misconduct, black refugees, and surprisingly, economic development. Du bois also encouraged the rise of Pan-Africanism, the coming together of people of African Descent to fight for their rights. Overall, Du Bois's focus of fighting segregation through legislative action caused him to create groups like the Niagra Movement and

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He believed that African American economic gains were not secure unless there was political power to safeguard them. “I think, though, that the opportunity to freely exercise such political rights will not come in any large degree through outside or artificial forcing…" (Washington 234). They both believed in equality. Although one believed in used force and military movements the other used writing to reach his audience. While there were many points of contention between Washington and DuBois, there were similarities in their philosophies as well.

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Booker Talaiferro Washington was born a slave in Hale 's Ford Virginia on April 5,1856 on a farm to his mother Jane. She was a plantation 's cook. His father was a local white man and took no interest in him he never learned who he actually father was. Washington would learn to read and write in the late 1860 ' s.

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Dr. W.E.B Du Bois uses this essay to sway the audience of the insufficiency of the statements that Mr. Booker T. Washington has made about African Americans being submissive of rights and the creation of wealth. Mr. Washington believes that the black race should give up and give into what the society norms were at that time sequentially just to have a certain right. Dr. Du Bois refused to believe that the black race should give up one right to get another right. Especially, when the white South had all rights without expecting to give up anything to have those rights.

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Achieving African American Equality Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois were two of the most influential advocates for African American equality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Blatty, 1). Although both men ultimately had the same goal, their methods for achieving African American equality were remarkably different. To begin, the men had conflicting ideas about what constituted as African American equality. Booker T. Washington argued that the accumulation of wealth and the ability to prove that Blacks were productive members of society would be the mark of true equality for African Americans (Painter, 155).

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In the mid-to-late 1800s the African American community faced opposition and segregation. They were segregated from the whites and treated as second-class citizens. This segregation was caused in part by Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws separated races in schools, hospitals, parks, public buildings, and transportation systems. Both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois had ideas on how to improve African American lives, Washington believed in starting at the bottom and working up whereas Du Bois had an opposing viewpoint he saw starting from the bottom as submissive and believed African Americans should hold important jobs in order to demand equal treatment.

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Ifakorede W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington : Ideas in Making Progress Against Racism W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were both noticeable African American pioneers who had various thoughts regarding how to gain ground against bigotry in the US. Booker T. Washington trusted in a technique of gradualism and convenience. He accepted that African Americans ought to zero in on professional training and financial independence, as opposed to political tumult and social fairness. Washington trusted that by demonstrating their monetary worth to society, African Americans could steadily gain the appreciation and acknowledgment of white Americans. He broadly expressed this methodology in his 1895 Atlanta Article Address, where he called for African Americans to

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However Booker T. Washington believed in having a more skillful education, consisting of learning how to trade, mastering agriculture skills and more things one would need to get a job. However, W.E.B DuBois also put many efforts to achieve equal rights towards African Americans which Booker T Washington put on hold. Booker T Washington’s plan was to make it so that “Blacks would [have to] accept segregation and discrimination but their eventual acquisition of wealth and culture would gradually win for them the respect and acceptance of whites”. This vision that Booker T Washington had “practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro race”. W.E.B commented on this process saying it was an attempt, “to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and underlings.”

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This altered approach was a result of these leaders seeing what past leaders had done, and the results or effects that had come from their work. Additionally, the 1890s - 1920s leaders had already done some work towards changing people’s minds towards giving rights to Black people. In the first movements, such as those of DuBois and Washington, civil rights was a relatively new topic for the American public. These two men introduced the movement and started a foundation for which other movements would be able to work upon. Earl Thorpe wrote in his autobiography, “The Booker Washington philosophy and program were the first positive ones that the masses of Negroes in America ever had,” (Doc C).

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Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He eventually became the property of a Virginia farmer as his mother was the plantation cook. Throughout his childhood, although his father did not live far away, he did not pay attention to him. He essentially was fatherless until his mother remarired and he decided to take his stepfather’s last name and assume a new identity. At age 16, Washington enrolled in The Hampton Institute for Blacks where he was introduced to the idea of learning a trade.

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Washington and Du Bois had every intention to improve the social and political status of African Americans, but they sought different plans to achieve such goals due to their different upbringings, values, and opinions.

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After a series of articles written by both Washington and Du Bois their difference came to a head after Du Bois directly criticized Washington and his approach in his book “The Souls of Black Folks”, he then went on to demand full civil rights for African Americans. Du Bois also believed in liberal arts education to create “talented tenth” of African Americans that could challenge segregation in court. Believing that political action and agitation were the only way to achieve equality Du Bois and other African American intellectuals founded a “radical” political group called Niagara, which later went on to become the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or the (NAACP). Due to Du Bois’ confrontational approach to the advancement of African Americans

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W.E.B. Du Bois falls under the historical lens of race due to the fact that he emphasized the need for black people to be politically recognized. Du Bois became a leader in the movement to win social justice for African Americans, and did all the he could in order to try and expand the civil rights movement for African Americans. In 1905 he would go on to gather a group of black leaders at Niagara falls and organized the Niagara movement, which sought to reinvigorate the abolitionist tradition. In this groups manifesto Du Bois expressed his beliefs that all born in America are born with their natural rights, regardless of skin color. Du Bois then went on to join a group of white reformers known as the NAACP, the reason for the fourteenth and

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W. E. B Du Bois was also a founding member and leader of the NAACP (NAACP). Du Bois "fought discrimination and racism…and contributed to debates about race, politics and history…through his writings and speeches" (America's Library).

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Du Bois interviewed thousands of residents in Philadelphia about their living conditions, from this study he concluded that the things that the black people endured was an inequality based on their race. “The Souls of Black Folk” in 1803 is considered his greatest work, it focused on how racism effected the African American community. In this book he also talked about Book T. Washington, he believed that Washington didn’t fight for equality for all as the 14th amendment stated should happened. This led to formation of the Niagara Movement, a group of African American leaders and scholars that oppose Booker T. Washington conservative platform. Although the Niagara Movement didn’t last long it lead to the formation of the NACCP (National association for the Advancement of Colored

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Frederick Douglas never had a formal education. He spoke of his time as a slave in order to rally the antislavery movement. Booker T. Washington was able acquire an education at Hampton institute by working many jobs to pay for it. He became a teacher; he spoke as a way to raise money and support for the education of African-Americans.

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