In the years following Reconstruction‚ many African Americans rose to the challenge of bringing rights and equality to blacks. Booker T. Washington‚ W.E.B. DuBois‚ and Ida Wells-Barnett are just of few examples of the outstanding influential African American leaders that had an impact on the people‚ time period‚ and history. Booker T. Washington did what seemed like the impossible for blacks; he founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. It was there that the former slave trained uneducated African
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antagonism between Blanche and Stanley. Blanche’s dislike and condescending opinion towards Stanley are shown through the overheard conversation she had with Stella in Scene 4. When she unreservedly degrades Stanley by drawing parallels between him and a “survivor of the Stone Age”‚ she further says‚ “there’s even something- sub-human” and “ape-like about him”. Immediate antagonism is created as Blanche dehumanises him and despises him for his “bestial behaviour”. Stanley sees Blanche as a threat to
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The character Blanche is quite a complex member of the play; you do not see a true representation of her until several scenes in. The two opening scenes show different sides to the character depending on whose company she is in. Having come from a good family with a “proper” upbringing‚ it can be said that she has led a somewhat sheltered life and therefore finds it hard to relate and sympathise other characters that did not experience the same quality of life. Her actions are impulsive‚ spontaneous
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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
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W.E.B. DuBois expressed his feeling of being a problem for being Black. This problem has become a struggle for DuBois to find himself fit in with his community. Because of this problem‚ DuBois believe that he has a double consciousness. According to DuBois‚ a double consciousness means he has to look at one’s self through the eyes of others to understand people’s perspective toward race. By using his double consciousness‚ DuBois can see that color line that has been hidden in the community and among
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W.E.B. DUBOIS Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois were two men that drastically altered the face of Civil Rights. Both had a strong hand in education and were dynamic figures of the Progressive Age. While they both were figure heads in the social improvements in African American lives‚ their strategies of achieving change were very different. The two men had very different upbringings. Washington was born as a slave in Virginia in 1856. He lived in a one-roomed log cabin. Dubois was born
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At last waking up‚ and moving as fast as he could‚ he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal‚ and was comfortably dozing after his fatigue. Booker T. Washington reminds me of the Tortoise that ended up the winner‚ and W.E.B. Dubois the Hare. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois had similar goals for African Americans: education‚ citizenship‚ equal rights‚ and better lives. But they had different views on how to achieve those goals‚ and different ideas of how fast they should be expected. I believe
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois‚ both early advocates of the civil rights movement‚ drafted‚ instilled‚ and instituted appropriate strategies and solutions to the discrimination and ideals of racial inferiority experienced by African-American Men and Women of the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries. Despite having the same common goal (Universal Tolerance of the African-American Race). Washington‚ condoned economic efficiency had a more gradual approach as opposed to Du Bois‚ whose direction
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Looking at the past of blacks and comparing it to today‚ there is not that much of a difference. Du Bois‚ as a historian‚ uses this knowledge and teaches the African American experience through his many essays and books. He takes stories from his childhood and also creates stories that have a symbolic underlining. In his book‚ The Souls of Black Folk‚ he uses a collective of essays to educate blacks‚ and give them the power to overcome the “the veil” of society. Du Bois uses education as a way to
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Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois both wanted to improve the civil rights of African-Americans‚ in order to do so they had expressed their opinions and plans through their literature works. Due to Washington and DuBois coming from different backgrounds they had conflicting approaches to the same goal. There were few similarities between the two writers; both hoped for an end to racism and wished for African Americans to receive a good education‚ furthering their knowledge. Born into slavery‚ Booker
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