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

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At the turn of the century, two leaders drove the civil rights movement: W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington. Both voiced responses to the fact that African Americans were shackled by the oppressive confines of an culture who viewed African Americans as inferior. Both men address the African American population, but neither men address how to change the mindsets of the white population, so men and women of all colors will be able to unite and live as one people. If African Americans follow Washington and limit themselves to the work and serve the white man “with devotion” as they did in the past, African Americans will continue to be enslaved, tilling the same fields as their shackled ancestors. Even if African Americans follow DuBois’