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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1. Ida B. Wells wrote the primary source Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. This article was published in October 1892. On the Encyclopedia Britannica Online I read that Ida B. Wells attended Rust University‚ which was a freedmen’s school‚ in Holly Springs‚ Mississippi. She started teaching when he was only 14 years old! Later she moved to Memphis‚ Tennessee and she taught there as well. While living and teaching in Tennessee she attended Fisk University‚ which is in Nashville‚ she was
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we not given the same privileges and were treated different than people of lighter skin. Many social leaders took a stand and were willing to help African Americans change the way the black race was perceived by the rest of society‚ such as Booker T. Washington. However Du Bois had a different approach to help uplift and reject the negative
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the evolving philosophies and organizational approaches of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Viewing them in the context of the times their individual programs were advanced‚ what were the merits and drawbacks of each individual’s program? And‚ which (if any) aspect of these programs are useful and/or detrimental in the current struggles of black Americans? Booker T. Washington was born a slave in the south‚ and W. E. B. Dubois was born free in the North. Their different births and upbringings
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the ninetieth century to the twentieth century gives birth to two of these leaders‚ Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. These two men are both working to achieve a common goal‚ but the roads on which they’re each traveling to get there differ significantly. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois offer different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination facing Black Americans. Booker T. Washington’s gradualism stance gives him wide spread appeal among both blacks and
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Fisk University‚ founded for the children of emancipated slaves‚ developed into a haven for African Americans to learn without any “rac[ial] considerations” taken place (“Song” 194). W.E.B. Du Bois attended this University and developed and awareness of the crisis of the “color line” within black and white societies‚ both races believing that the lighter the skin‚ the better (194). Du Bois himself‚ born a light-skinned black man‚ realized the importance of accepting his race as a whole and disregarding
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Booker T. Washington VS. WEB DuBois In the days when segregation was not uncommon‚ there were two men that played a huge part in the fight for equality in the United States. Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois were great leaders‚ who supporterted civil rights‚ yet also disagreed on various issues related to reconstruction‚ poverty‚ racism‚ and discrimination. Both Washington and DuBois worked on reforming education as well as eliminating discrimination towards Blacks‚ but their strategies of
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Ida B. Wells Biography Ida B. Wells was born a slave in 1862 in Holly Springs‚ Missouri. She is the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. The Wells family along with all other slaves were freed six months after Ida’s birth thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. The Wells family received lots of racial prejudice living in Mississippi. They were restricted by racial rules and practices. James Wells served on the board of trustees for Rust College and made education a priority for his seven
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others. One woman in particular‚ Ida B. Wells‚ advocated for African Americans throughout her life and continued
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The twentieth century was a transitional moment in history for African Americans and literary scholars and activists like W.E.B. Du Bois made sure of this. He succeeded in protesting and making aware the importance of an education. The treatment of slaves prior to the twentieth century ultimately shaped that era and what was to come of it. Despite the freedom that blacks were exposed to following the Emancipation proclamation‚ Du Bois felt that new the ideal and a new form of power came through education
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