W. E. Duboise
During the time between 1877 and 1915, black Americans experiences many social and economic and political difficulties. Many African Americans supported the program of Booker T. Washington, the most prominent black leader of the late 19th and early 20th century, who counseled them to focus on modest economic goals and to accept temporary social discrimination. Others, led by the African-American intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois, wanted to challenge segregation through political action. Washington and Du Bois both have valid strategies; Washington believing that blacks could advance themselves faster through hard work than by demands for equal rights, Du Bois declaring that African Americans must speak out constantly against discrimination. During the 1870's, the principle of segregation by race extended into every area of Southern life, from railroads to restaurants, hotels, hospitals and schools. Any area of life that was not segregated by law was segregated by custom and practice. In 1873 the Supreme Court found that the Fourteenth Amendment (citizenship rights not to be ab
Du Bois felt that assimilation was the best means of treating the discrimination against blacks. Education was the key to a diverse, multicultural society. "If the meaning of modern life cannot be taught at Negro hearthsides because the parents themselves are untaught then its ideals can be forced into the centres of Negro life only by the teaching of higher institutions of learning and the agency of thoroughly educated men," wrote Du Bois. Du Bois was a well-respected intellectual and a leader of the NAACP in which he worked to reach the goals of education and peaceful resolution between races. Du Bois had a very different plan than for the struggle for black equality. Du Bois felt that the black leadership of the time, which was mainly Washington. Du Bois felt that Washington's plan would cause blacks to give up "First, political power, Second, insistence on civil rights, Third, higher education of Negro youth..." While Dubois respected Washington and his accomplishments, he felt that blacks needed political power to protect what they had worked for. ridged) conferred
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