Booker T. Washing vs. W.E.B Dubois
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois were both great men who accomplished amazing things to help the civil rights movement during the period of 1877 to 1915. Washington believed that in order to achieve equality with white people, they needed to prove that they are able to by getting practical jobs. DuBois believed that they needed higher education and to make their voice be heard in order to achieve equality. Both had the same goal but wanted to go about it completely different ways. Washington's plan, although helpful to each individual, did not help to achieve civil equality. DuBois however, brought into public view many injustices that were being done to black people at the time.Booker T. Washington was the last generation born into slavery in 1856. He was trained as a houseboy and worked in salt furnaces and coalmines while attending school part time until he was able to attend Hampton Institute. (BOOKER T SOURCE!) His father was white and he was trained by white people. This coexistence with white people softened him to the horrible treatment of other black people in the south through segregation (Doc. J) and lynchings. (Doc. C) W.E.B. Dubois was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1890 he gra
He may have had the wrong idea about some things, but his accomplishments there, despite his motives, are nothing less then remarkable. DuBois didn't believe that they could gain their rights "at the blast of a trumpet; but they are absolutely certain that the way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away and insisting that they do not want them (as Washington suggests); . Both men's plans for civil equality mirrored their upbringings. He makes them out to be mindless paid servants that only know one task, to serve. Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to modern manhood. DuBois believed that black peopled need to "complain, Yes, plain, blunt complain, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonest and wrong-this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty, and we must follow it. G) Washington believed that in order to coexist with whites, we had to gain their respect by having a "devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of yours.
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