Comparing W. E. B. Dubois And Booker T. Washington

After laws were passed that separated African Americans and Whites, the lives of those who were harmfully affected saw no progress in their mission for equality. After the Thirteenth Amendment abolished in America, racial discrimination became regulated by the Jim Crow laws, which mandated strict segregation of the races. Several lies were affected because of segregation it was a major problem for people in the United States of America whether it was the South or the North. Two leaders had different perspectives to handle racism but they both wanted to end racism and they were W.E.B. Dubois & Booker T. Washington.

Booker T. Washington was born in the South April 5, 1856 and was educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. He was also the most influential black leader of his time between 1856 and 1915. Booker T.

Dubois was born in February 23, 1868 and was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Racism was the main target of Du Bois's pleas, and he strongly protested against murdering, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. Du Bois advocated political action, civil and he helped found the NAACP. In addition, he argued that social change could be accomplished by developing the small group of college-educated blacks. Du Bois demanded civil rights now took aggressive actions in order for the African Americans to be equal. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement made by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois vowed full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the mastery of African-American intellectual elite. He also believed that capitalism was the primary cause of