Booker T. Washing vs. W.E.B Dubois
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois were both great men who accomplished amazing things to help the civil rights movement during the period of 1877 to 1915. Washington believed that in order to achieve equality with white people, they needed to prove that they are able to by getting practical jobs. DuBois believed that they needed higher education and to make their voice be heard in order to achieve equality. Both had the same goal but wanted to go about it completely different ways. Washington's plan, although helpful to each individual, did not help to achieve civil equality. DuBois however, brought into public view many injustices that were being done to black people at the time.Booker T. Washington was the last generation born into slavery in 1856. He was trained as a houseboy and worked in salt furnaces and coalmines while attending school part time until he was able to attend Hampton Institute. (BOOKER T SOURCE!) His father was white and he was trained by white people. This coexistence with white people softened him to the horrible treatment of other black people in the south through segregation (Doc. J) and lynchings. (Doc. C) W.E.B. Dubois was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1890 he gra
Washington founded the Tuskegee institute in 1881. The institute was an industrial school teaching "hands-on" work such as laundry work, blacksmithing, carpentering, and housekeeping. (Doc. G) Washington believed that in order to coexist with whites, we had to gain their respect by having a "devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of yours..." (Doc. D). He believed that they needed to have servitude to the white people to achieve equality. In a sense, Washington's plan to achieve equality was through doing white people's laundry. Washington not only shifts the blame for racism from white people to black people, saying it is black people's fault racism exists, but he puts black people below white people. He makes them out to be mindless paid servants that only know one task, to serve. He doesn't make them out to be thinking, input providing, co-workers. DuBois and others such as Ida Wells Barnett believe that black people should not have to subject themselves to industrial education, but should be allowed to flourish in college level education. (Doc H) However, Washington achieved amazing feats at the Tuskegee institute. He may have had the wrong idea about some things, but his accomplishments there, despite his motives, are nothing less then remarkable. Washington almost single handedly lowered the il
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