African Americans were undoubtedly the inferior race during the 1800’s, and more specifically, the time period in which Booker T. Washington served as an influential leader to the African American peopl

Among the many issues Du Bois and Washington disagreed upon, education was among them. Washington advocated industrial and vocational education for the Blacks, and felt that they shouldn’t concentrate on subjects that, according to him, were impractical such as mathematics, science, and the humanities. In fact, he founded the Tuskegee Institute where Blacks would acquire skills in various industrial fields. In contrast, Du Bois believed that a higher education was a necessity, and that the South needed more colleges and universities for Blacks “to train the best of the Negro youth as teachers, professional men, and leaders” (46). Furthermore, Du Bois thought that “Negro common-schools”, including Tuskegee, would not be able to operate had it not been for Black colleges and universities.

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