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.
The similarities between the two great African American leader in 19th and 20th century. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois. Both were the hope of generation because they were able to speak up to the rights for African American. Both wanted good education for African American for them to be recognize in the community and build a standard by their professions. both were against lynching because both wanted the lynching to be over .However, both of them have different way for Black social and economic progress.
Dubois and Washington strategies were extremely different and the way they thought about going about equality. Washington was loved by whites he was not the one to get confortartional. Washington wanted blacks to sit around and wait. Whereas Dubois was hated and feared by whites. Dubois was an agitator.
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were two great leaders of the black community in the late 19th and 20th century. They both had the same intent with their thought but they came from two different backgrounds so it was hard for them to have agreement. Booker T. Washington spent his early childhood in slavery. W. E. B. DuBois grew up both free and in the North. Ergo, he did not experience the harsh conditions of slavery or of southern prejudice he grew up with white Americans and even attended predominately white schools.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois are two of the most influential black men of the progressive era. These two men would influence the black community and education to come for many years later. Booker T. Washington was an American educator,author,orator,and adviser who wanted to start his own school. W.E.B Dubois was an American sociologist,socialist,historian,and civil rights activist. Booker T.Washington and W.E.B. Dubois have many similarities.
Booker T. Washington was born as a slave in Virgina. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B) DuBois was born a free man in Massachusetts. Despite the differences in how they were raised, they both wanted to try and improve the way African Americans were treated in society. Washington gave a speech called the Atlantic Compromise, and DuBois wrote an Article/essay called The Talented Tenth. Both of these written works outlined the author's position on race.
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.
Again, DuBois was born in the North without half of the fight Southern African-Americans had to witness and live through. He did not go through the struggles of being a freed slave, or the extreme prejudice of being a Black in the South. Nor did he go through the personal struggles of being Black in the South. He and Washington’s upbringings were polar opposites, so the difference of their views is very understandable. Booker T. Washington was born as a slave in Franklin County, Virginia in the mid 1850’s, and had to start his childhood as a slave.
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.
Booker T Washington vs W.E.B DuBois is one of the greatest rivalries that won't be forgotten. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois were two civil rights activists who fought for African Americans to get equal rights. Though they were fighting the same fight, they didn't always see eye to eye in their philosophies. But whose philosophy is better? Many believe that Dubois' philosophy is more efficient and effective, but he overlooks key factors that would greatly impact African Americans.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois were African-American thinkers who had a vision of how African Americas should be treated with equality. The two historians had many similarities such as both of them believed that both Americans and Africans should have equal rights. Both W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington advocated for the rights and equality of African-Americans. However, they differed on how and when African-Americans should achieve their rights. According to Booker T., the African-Americans should first concentrate on getting jobs and obtain vocational training.
It would be rather hard to differ between the two if their named weren’t constantly mentioned. These two men left a permanent mark in history with their ideologies they bestowed upon America. Booker T Washington gave a speech that he hoped would solidify the relationship between blacks and whites.
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.
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.
It was there he experienced the Jim Crow laws and began to analyze the problems of American discrimination. William Du Bois philosophy on race was different compared to educator Booker T. Washington(Booker). They did not come to terms with a significant amount of topics, had different ideas on progressivism, yet still were able to merge their ideas to help Blacks gain equal rights. W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington had one of the biggest rivalries in the 20th century. They were both accomplished scholars and activists, but it was their differences in black progress and background that shaped blacks’ communities’ future.
