Question

Activity Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois espoused different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Compare and contrast these two men, including their backgrounds, their lives, and their beliefs. In your response, you should use historical evidence to craft a thesis, or a historical argument.

Answer 1

Du bois was raised in a wealthier side up north and beleived that blcaks should claim freedom in a less aggressive way while booker T was raised as a slave and believed that blacks should force their way into freedom and when i say freedom i mean claim their civil rights and jobs

Answer 2

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois are two well-known thinkers who were very influential during the Reconstruction period. These two characters debated on the best way to achieve equality for Black people. However, they had very different visions.

Booker T. Washington took a more "conciliatory" approach to the issue of civil rights. He believed that the best strategy to follow was that of asking for some things (education, agriculture and economics) while not asking for others (such as the vote and social integration).

W.E.B. DuBois disagreed with many of these ideas. He supported complete equality. Moreover, he did not believe that Black people should compromise on this. Instead, he believed that Black people had the right to demand this right with no compromise.