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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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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During the late 19th and early 20th century‚ Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois came to be known as two of the great leaders in civil rights movement and more importantly in the education of the black community. Although Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois have the common goal of improving the education of African Americans‚ both of these great leaders have different philosophies in the education of the black community. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois come from different backgrounds and have
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Booker T. Washington was born a slave and was nine years old when slavery ended. When booker T. Washington was older he created the Tuskegee institute in Alabama. He was the principal their and he taught blacks about the industry and industrial skills. He was a politician and also a good public speaker‚ he was able to get whites and blacks to donate to his school. Booker T. Washington was a better and stronger advocated for rights of African Americans than W.E.B. Dubois was because Washington wasn’t
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In the early 1900’s both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois presented a plan for racial justice. While the two plans fought for the same people‚ their approach‚ ideologies‚ and goals differed. Both men were brave to speak out‚ but overall Du Bois created a plan that was radical and one that represented the African American community well. Du Bois most compelling tool used in his plan for racial justice lies in his word choices. The way he uses metaphors like “the veil” and “double consciousness”
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the way you view things‚ handle or approach certain situations. W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington were raised completely different ways. Some may even go as far to say that they are polar opposites. That is why their approach on getting equality for African Americans are completely different. I agree with both of their approaches for many reasons but I also disagree with points on each argument as well. On one side Dubois never grew up as a slave and he had his education given to him. He never
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Booker T. Washington uses the metaphor of the fingers and the hand to alleviate the pressures felt by both whites and blacks. Whites did not want to feel forced into interaction while a lot of blacks would have probably felt resentment towards having to interact with whites. In the passage preceding this declaration‚ he states‚ "we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach interlacing our industrial‚ commercial‚ civil and religious life with yours in a way that shall make
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to the essence of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois by telling us that we can’t change our race or skin color no matter what the circumstances are. This song relates to these people because they were treated unfairly and fought for their rights to have equality for all people. Booker T. and W.E.B. are both successful and influential Americans to live during the 1800s and 1900s. They supported African-American rights and wanted to change American society. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
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time‚ two people in particular offered strategies for dealing with the troubles African Americans were going through. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois offered very diverse plans of action. While Washington wanted African Americans to go to school and get educated in agriculture‚ Dubois wanted them to protest for their civil rights. Though Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois often had opposing strategies for achieving African American equality‚ each had developed strategies that were appropriate
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Both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois differed on their views on how to assist african americans in their subhuman living conditions faced everyday. Both were aware about the importance of technological advancement for blacks as they thought it was one of the only ways for african americans to make it up higher in society. Washington had the belief that in order to essentially “solve” the race problem in america‚ african americans needed to “prove” themselves worthy of being reliable and good
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