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

Since then Booker T Washington and W.E.B Dubois have both had echoes in subsequent African American Political thought. Similar to Washington both Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X has strong notions of separatism. Washington’s ideas of separatism were different form Garvey and Malcolm X. Washington’s eventual goal was that black and whites could coexist but that in the moment blacks needed to find their own way in order to become equal. Garvey took this idea and brought it one step further. Garvey, as Washington had been, was a strong proponent of Black Nationalism but where Washington felt this was a temporary necessity to a over arching problem, Garvey, “believe[d] that white men should be white, yellow men should be yellow, and black men should be black in the great panorama of races,” and, “the white man of America will not, to any organized extent, assimilate the Negro,” because in doing so the white man will be committing “racial suicide.” These ideas were passed on to Malcolm X, who, in his younger years, like Garvey, “too believe[d] the best solution,” of the African American struggle, “is
Their ideas, though different had significance for each other and for the 19th and 20th century. Many of the problems that faced the African American community during that time still have a lasting impressions. At the height of their debate, Washington and DuBois divided the African American community into post slavery black thought and the start to the civil rights movement. The core of their debate, the role of education for blacks and the question of separate or united, still holds echoes in African American thinkers and in American culture. Booker T Washington and W.E.B DuBois were considered two of the most influential black thinkers of their time; their lasting impressions are still relevant