Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were great leaders in the Civil rights movement. They helped blacks have more rights. W.E.B. DuBois was one of the co-founders of the NAACP. Booker T. Washington gave blacks strength with speeches. They both had a common goal, but they both had a different way on how to do it.
Booker T. Washington was an African American spokesman and leader. W.E.B. DuBois was also an African American leader and he was co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). On September 8, 1895, Booker T. Washington gave a speech about equality and education between races. 1903, W.E.B. DuBois responded to Booker T. Washington in disagreement in his book The Souls of Black Folk. Washington spoke whilst Dubois wrote.
E. B. DuBois was a white civil rights leader during the nineteenth century. In 1903, DuBois critiqued Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” in an essay called “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” within his book, The Souls of Black Folk . DuBois asked for political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher education for African Americans. Booker T. Washington’s speech was looked at by many and to the radicals it looked like a “complete surrender of the demand for civil and political equality”(DuBois) for the entire African American population. Abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. DuBois disagreed with the idea of accommodation and submission.
In the era of 1920’s and 30’s; Black-America witnessed a rivalry between none other than Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois. This changed the navigation of society and was the birth of the Civil Rights Movement. Even though they were born in the same era, their views on African-American living standards differed in a few ways. Their upbringing and differences of methods is what shaped Black-America into what it is today.
If you had to choose between someone who focuses on learning practical skills and being independent, or someone who would fight for education,civil rights and political changes, who would you choose? In this debate, W.E.B. Dubois is having a conversation with his rival, Booker T. Washington. W.E.B. DuBois proposes the idea of a higher level of education and how people should have their voices heard. Whilst Booker T. wants to keep our mouths shut, do what the system tells us to do, be hard independent workers and overall be good civilians. W.E.B. Dubois's approach is the most effective way to achieve equality and freedom.
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.
After looking at both Booker T. Washington and W.E. B. Dubois, I feel that Booker T. Washington had the best solution and best route for his solution for the black community. He was raised a salve and new first hard the lifestyle a majority of the blacks were coming from. He knew the frustrations that they had and knew how to deal with the situations. He was extremely educated just like W. E. B. Dubois, and he understand that change would take time. He knew that many whites would not change their opinions over night and that it would take a long time to get what all black deserved.
After studying earth for 150 years we have collected many valuable artifacts and to bring these home we have to leave a crew member behind to influence earth. I am choosing to leave behind Booker T. Washington instead of W.E.B Dubois. I have chosen Washington to stay because I believe his slower approach towards racial progress in the U.S will result in less violence. Washington believes that if black’s learn trade skills they can slowly emerge themselves into society as an equals. He has plans to create an all African American school teaching trade skills to blacks called Tuskegee Normal.
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.
The fight against the oppression of African-Americans was an uphill battle until the year 1865, when slavery was officially abolished in the U.S. through the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. About 30 years later there were many African- American leaders and activists, two of which were Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. In 1895, Booker T. Washington gave a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, which is now called "The Atlanta Compromise." Washington's speech became famous for his use of the metaphor "cast down your bucket" that he applied to the African-American community of the South. By “casting down their buckets” he means that remaining in the South and working hard to improve their conditions
I am going to be comparing how two great black men in history and their opinions on what black people should do for their rights. Those two men are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois. Even though DuBois had respect for Washington, he did not feel as if what Washington wanted us to do was helpful to the blacks. Washington believed in vocational and industrial education for young and unskilled workers. Though they both believed in education, Dubois believed that everyone who was capable should have higher education.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, WEB DuBois and Booker T. Washington engaged in intellectual debates over the best way for African Americans to achieve social and economic progress. DuBois criticized Washington’s political agenda as it focused on vocational education and economic self-sufficiency, and he claimed that it ignored the importance of political and civil rights. While these two prominent black leaders had different ideologies and approaches about how to address the issues faced by African Americans, their debate continues to resonate in today’s society. One of DuBois’s main objections to Washington’s program was that it placed too much emphasis on vocational education and economic development at the expense of academic education and political rights.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were both prominent leaders for the black population in the United States. Both Washington and Du Bois wanted the equality for blacks but they clashed with the idea of accepting segregation. Both leaders founded major groups and organizations to help the blacks including the Tuskegee Institute, National Negro Business League, Niagara Movement, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The ideas that set these leaders apart were their standpoints on voting, pushing for education in the work force, and the ending of segregation. Unlike Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois fought for the voting rights for blacks in the south.
W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington were civil rights leaders who had different views about how to help African Americans in their struggle for full civil rights. Dubois was born into a free black family but Washington was born into slavery. As a result they had a different approach to the situation. Washington believed that the best approach would be to accept their situation and work hard in order to prove to white people that they were an asset to society. He encouraged them to set aside their demand for equality, to focus on educating themselves, “The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us, must
Booker T. Washington was born a slave and worked as a janitor to get through school. Whereas W.E.B. Du Bois was born in the North and faced very little discrimination, and had an easier time getting into College. They were well educated, and the only difference between them was how they were raised in different environments. Both were on the journey to improve African American’s social and political status in America. However, they had different methods for getting what they wanted.
