Debate between Bokker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

After the Civil War in The United States (1861-1865), the beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of reconstruction. After the Gilded Age, this was considered by its economic expansion and the rise of a new country, the conquest of its enormous western lands and the leading of other nations into industry and trade. In Addition, the implementation of the Jim Crow law enacted in America from 1875 to 1965, it officially segregated black and whites in public places. The decree intended to provide both whites and blacks, the same economic, educational and social conditions. The reality in American society was obviously divided by segregation, poverty and illiteracy. Many abolitionists and anti-racist activist have risen in this period, not only to free African Americans from slavery but to fight for their right to have an equal position in society like white men. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) and W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868-1963) were two well-educated African Americans, who were both civil right supporters, but both disagree on various issues; their philosophy on education for African Americans were contraries; Du Bois promoted African American equality, voting and high education while Washington was in favor of industrial education.
Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856. His biological Father was an unknown white male; his mother was an African American slave and his last name Washington was given by his stepfather. In 1872, he attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia. Its purpose was to train African Americans as teachers, and graduated in 1875 with honors and certificate to teach at trade schools. He was the first principal of what were Tuskegee Institute; It Started with only 30 students and the faculty and students built the school from ground up with homemade bricks. Later in life, Washington was dealing in the Atlanta Compromise the postponement of equal rights for low level economic