Question

Booker T. WAshingto and W.E.B Dubois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and descrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1877-1915, assess the apopriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which eas was developed. (

Answer 1

Answer:

Booker T. Washington used a strategy of accommodation and W.E.B. Du Bois advocated more direct confrontation to end the magnitude of American racism.  

Explanation:

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were both prominent and educated black men and they had a profound influence on the political culture towards race and civil rights after Reconstruction.  Booker T. Washington advocated a more accommodating approach where he felt that most black Americans should endure the discrimination they were experiencing and to make improvements by conciliating to the dominant white society and seeking their own quiet economic advancement. Du Bois on the other hand was more radical and believed that direct confrontation was necessary and he took many active measures to try to advance civil rights for his fellow citizens like helping to found the NAACP.  He was the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard.