An orator/activist, Douglass fought the institution of slavery before the Civil War and the injustices of racism after emancipation. He became a well-known figure on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps the most able activist/orator and organizer in African American history, Booker T. Washington was a singularly effective proponent of Black-white racial accommodationism, a stance which made him the most famous person of color in the world at the turn of the last century. An astoundingly productive intellectual/activist, DuBois became internationally renowned through the power of his pen, from which flowed 16 books and hundreds of artic

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