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

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin. This quotes summarizes the dichotomy of the two most celebrated African American during the eighteenth hundreds. W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington were the driving force behind the freedom and equality movement during the process of reconstruction. Even though they came from different backgrounds, education, and regions they both had a different and similar vision for African Americans such as how to add value to the community, legal and voting rights, and how to integrate themselves within the white community to become one Nation. They both wanted not only what was best for the African Americans as a single

Washing went from a slave to a servant that subsequently graduated in Industrial Education and later proposed that the best way to add value to the African American community was to industrialized jobs so they can gain acceptance and equality from whites. He believed that this was the best way to adapt to America as a whole. “That we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life, it is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.” Booker T Washington. The Niagara movement was formed to protest against the ideology of accommodation and to fight for the rights of African Americans in the United States. W.E.B Dubois who grew up in an integrated community and was the first African American to earn a P.H.D from Harvard University founded this movement. The organization was a current of protest thus giving the name the Niagara

Which is living in two worlds knowing your role within your culture, plus the one living in America. He theorized that racism affected identity that it weighted so heavy that it stopped them from achieving what they could as human beings. He saw beauty in black and wanted the African American community to be equal and have no limitations. “ We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights” W.E.B Dubois. On the other hand, Booker T. Washington did not see things this way, he was more concerned in about promoting agricultural and industrial jobs to African Americans than to fully fight for all their American rights. “No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem”. Booker T.