striving‚ would do us more credit than a thousand civil bills.” This is a quote from W.E.B. Dubois that means everyone is equal and should have to work for their self. Booker T. Washington felt this way too because he hard working black slave. In this essay I will prove to you that Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois have many similarities and differences. Washington was born as a slave in 1856. While Washington was a slave in his childhood‚ he carried 100 pound sacks of grain to the plantation mill
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W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T.Washington were both influential men during the Civil Rights movement. Even though they were both extremely influential‚ they both had contrasting points of views on which actions to take when it comes to racial equality. Booker T. Washington believed social equality would happen over time when the African Americans became economically well built and powerful. W.E.B. DuBois thought that political and social equality was necessary‚ so he came up with the movements such as
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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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paths to travel. While Booker T. Washington chose sacrifice in continuation of hard labor‚ W.E.B DuBois had a strive to fight for civil rights which would then allow the black person to obtain equality on multiple fields. Booker T. Washington explores his path to equality in his article‚ The Awakening
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University Abstract In 1903 civil right activist W.E.B. Dubois wrote an essay emphasizing the necessity for higher education to develop the leadership capacity among the most able 10 percent of black Americans. An essay which would later be called "The Talented Tenth"‚ (Dubois‚ W.E.B.‚ 1903) in this essay Dubois laid out a challenge for black education. A challenge that has yet to be realized nearly 100 years after Dubois issued it. Dubois challenged African-Americans to educate themselves to their
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois were two black persons who lived in different times in the Negros life in America‚ as slaves and as free slaves. Booker T. Washington was born a slave‚ but became a free slave‚ he‚ started to believed that Africans should work to win the respect of the whites. Also he‚ believed that blacks should just accept that whites are not responsible of why blacks are in a difficult economic and social situation‚ he said that "blacks should start from the bottom and work
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DuBois and Washington on Education Over 100 years ago W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington began a debate over strategies for black social and economic progress‚ which is still prevalent today. Booker T. Washington believed that the role of education for African Americans should be an industrial one‚ where as W.E.B DuBois wanted African Americans to become engaged in a Liberal Arts education. Washington ’s approach to solving the problems African Americans faced was rooted in his belief in
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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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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 and W.E.B. DuBois Booker T. Washington was a dominant African-American leader in the United States in the late 1890s to early 1900s. He believed that people could make the transition from poverty to success with self-help. His views incorporated working to achieve benefits and rewards from the whites and accepting their place in society as blacks. Washington and his students built the Tuskegee Institute for learning and to provide themselves with basic needs. The Tuskegee
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