Dubois_V._Washington

Dubois V. Washington History Comparison Essay The future of the freedman W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington were both extremely influential black leaders, who were remembered for their beliefs, on the lives and freedoms that were deserved by the freedman during the late eighteen hundreds. Booker T. Washington was born four years before the civil war had begun, Dubois was born three years after the civil war had come to an end. Washington had been exposed to slavery and the troubles of the black man during and prior to the dilemma of the freedman at an early age. Dubois was not exposed to the daily problems that slaves endured until his early teenage years. Dubois’s and Washington’s slightly different backgrounds caused them to have different views on the future of freedman in the United States. The question that plagued many politicians and leaders in the years that followed the civil war was how to treat the newly freed slaves. Although a large amount of people believed that African Americans did not deserve to be slaves, they did not believe that African Americans were the average white man’s equal. Dubois and Washington being two very washington, man, dubois, black, both, years, freedman, believed, own, equal, different, civil, become, able, white, war, slaves, rights, newly, leaders, future, freed, first, even, education, african, very, though, therefore, tensions, sufficient, stable, opportunities, obtain, individual