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Marcus Garvey And W. E. B. Du Bois

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Individuals in the United States understood that their society established inequality as a norm and they recognized that organizing themselves was an approach to speak up against the system. Which is why famous, well-known leaders like Booker T. Washington knew that if they created expositions, they could attract anyone to hear and spread their ideas and solutions to what was transpiring in their communities. However, all communities did not gather together to fight the injustice order; organization manifested according to the individuals’ perspective. For instance, Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois arose to fight against the discrimination of African Americans, but to their frame of reference. For instance, Garvey was about racial purity, separatism, and nationalism while …show more content…

For example, Du Bois experience the savagery in Atlanta which prompted him to change African Americans lives economically, politically, and socially. For Marcus Garvey, he organized “The Negro World” that created black-owned businesses so African Americans would not face racial prejudice, and instead created a “nation” within the United States where it was operated, owned, and only for African Americans. Inequality took various forms it wasn’t just in race it took part in gender. As a result, women organized themselves and established the Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL) to change the workplace’s treatment and entry. When women realized that organization was key to improving their standard of living and were successful at it, it incited them to take a step further which was establishing new movements like feminism. It was a powerful countermovement that opened new opportunities for women in status, relationships, and expectations. Although, people formed organizations to fight for the restrictions placed on them by society; challenges arose that counter their beliefs. One demonstration is the rise of the KKK clan they were Americans that tried to nullify and suppress organizations and

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Following many years of struggle, Du bois succeeded in achieving the NAACP organization that still stands today and strives for equality. Also for Du Bois he knew what he was doing as as. ”political thinker. As he stated in one of his novels The Philadelphia Negro

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To reduce violence on Blacks, he pushed for the economy gain n our communities. With this thought pattern, everyone wanted to hear what he had to say. Northern and Southern blacks had a common ground in which everyone could relate; not only the educated Brothers and

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DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King Jr. all of them actively discussing equality sooner rather than later. W.E.B. DuBois was a founder of the Niagara Movement and the Crisis Magazine. He was a member of the American Labor Union who called for equal labor right. Unlike Garvey and Malcolm X he did believe that the races could coexist, but unlike Booker T. Washington he fought for equal rights now instead of later. He believed that despite education, ability, and birth, that all people deserved fair treatment and that they shouldn’t have to wait for it.

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Sam Borella Vincent Adams Engl. 312-02 26 February 2015 Intentions in Writing on Civil Rights Formed from Childhood When looking back at the great leaders of African American society we often think of the obvious Martin Luther King Jr., but what about the civil rights activists before him? Thinking all the way back to the late 1800s two great activists, authors, and historians come to mind. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois became known as prominent influences during their times.

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W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington were very influential leaders for the equality of blacks, specifically ex-slaves while W.E.B. DuBois was a founder of the well known NAACP. Both of them agreed that the goal was to have black people be fully engaged in society. This meant they should be active in the economic as well as the political sections of society. Unfortunately, their differing backgrounds brought them to very different places on how they felt that ultimate goal would be achieved. Booker T. Washington was born as a slave.

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In the analysis of the abundance of wonderful leaders who made a difference in the African American community since emancipation, W.E.B Du Bois made a special impact to advance the world. From founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to his influential book The Souls of Black Folk, he always found an accurate yet abstract way of verbalizing the strives of African Americans as well as making platforms for them to be known. Although he had less power than most of the bigger named African American leaders of his time, W.E.B Dubois’ overweighing strengths verses weaknesses, accurate and creative analogies, leadership style, and the successful foundations he stood for demonstrates his ability to be both realistic and accurate in his assessment since emancipation. Though Du Bois did have a beneficial impact

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The Klan and Marcus Garvey both believed in the superiority and separation of their respective races. For one, they shared common ground in that each race should stay “associated” with their respective country. The Klan believed in America belonging to Americans only, and not immigrants or other races. Marcus Garvey and his followers thought that returning to Africa and keeping the races separate would keep each race from mixing with each other. Both parties thought equality was pointless and unattainable.

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Thesis statement: The two great leaders in the black community debating about the issues that face the Negro race and Du Bois gave a compelling argument by using pathos, logos and ethos to create an essay that will appear to all readers. Outline: This essay will showcase the contradicting philosophies between W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Also, paying close attention to the different types of leadership between the two historic leaders in the black community. Both W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington contributed to and helped shape the future of African Americans.

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DuBois made sure the racial inequality issues did not go unnoticed. Specifically, DuBois actively tried to prove Jim Crow Laws were unjust. To illustrate, DuBois and the NAACP actively worked to prove the laws inequitable and for them to be taken down. “Along with Ida Wells, he founded the NAACP. This group worked through the court system to prove that Jim Crow Laws were racist, illegal, and should end in the United States.”

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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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DuBois’s first post-dissertation book, The Philadelphia Negro, released in 1899, determined that housing and employment discrimination were the principal barriers to racial equality and black prosperity in the urban North. (blackpast.org/aah/dubois-william-edward-burghardt-1868-1963) In his written book, The Souls of Black Folks, released in 1903, he argued for "manly" and "ceaseless agitation and insistent demand for equality” which demanded a education of equality for blacks that’s not inferior to whites. (W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP, Virginia Historical Society) Du Bois promoted the idea of self improvement, without giving up full citizenship rights, which impacted the general well being of African American and visualized the idea of having an exclusive group of all black, educated leaders called “The

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During the time of segregation, there were many motivational speakers fighting for what they believed in. An example of this is Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. Washington and DuBois had different philosophies, but entirely wanted the same outcome, for African Americans to have the same opportunities as everyone else. Washington was born into slavery, and he knew people would have to work hard for what they wanted. In the Mini Biography of Booker T. Washington, it says, “Washington believed that industrial education, which focused on vocational training, would provide a way for African Americans to build social status and economic self-sufficiency.”

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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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The profound effects of Progressivism had done little for African Americans, with very few that managed to gain a foothold by services and products to the black community. Especially in the South, where racism was much more prominent, and where many more white Americans possessed the ideology that blacks were inferior to whites. W.E.B. Du Bois was the very first African American to receive a PhD, and he published several books and essays, describing in great detail the numerous hurdles they were presented with. In his own journal, The Crisis, he displays an example after World War I, explaining the lack of recognition African Americans received for fighting “gladly and to the last drop of blood; for America and her highest ideals” (Document I). African Americans were kept extremely busy with “lynching, disenfranchisement, caste, brutality, and devilish insult” (Document I), fighting to protect and secure the rights they had already worked so hard to achieve.

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He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Black Star Line. It helped stimulate black pride and brought the concept of Garveyism, the unification and empowerment of the black communities. Another early organization that was able to continue is the NAACP. They believed that in order to actually make a difference, the country needed to be organized. They used field staff to increase their reach to the public.

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