Washington_Vs_Dubois

Washington Vs Dubois Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Dubois Despite their obvious differences, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois, agreed that the blacks in the south had to reach one goal: first-class citizenship. Their methods of reaching this goal varied between the two black men. Booker T. Washington believed that blacks needed to gradually work their way from the bottom to the top, achieve positions of power and responsibility, and then demand their rights for equal citizenship. W.E.B. believed that blacks deserved the same rights as whites and they should not have to sacrifice their constitutional rights in order to achieve a status that they already deserved. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery. He was raised during the midst of the worsening social, political, and economic conditions for blacks. Washington emerged out of this hardship to one of the most influential leaders of his time. He was the founder and principle of the Tuskegee Institution in Alabama. Washington’s educational background was training. He was taught that manual labor and learning skills were more successful during this time. Washington became nationally recognized and was invited to speak at the Cotton States and International Opening. Here is when Washington delivered his “Atlanta Exposition Address.” In his blacks, washington, whites, dubois, rights, believed, social, south, equality, equal, web, washington’s, goal, booker, black, jim, gain, crow, citizenship, should, education, world, university, time, same, respect, protest, order, needed, laws, felt, during, deserved, civil, beliefs, because