... Achievement Video Collection 1992). As Booker T. Washington's notoriety faded, W.E.B. Du Bois arose. W.E.B Du Bois was Booker T. Washington's biggest critic. Du Bois earned his Ph.D. in history from Harvard. He taught at prestigious schools like University of Pennsylvania and Atlanta University. Du Bois' approach was much different than Booker T. Washington. Du Bois' radical approach demanded African Americans protest their rights as Americans. This included ... and also wanted to ban all racism towards African Americans. Although Booker T. Washington was about patience, W.E.B. DuBois was...

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... equality, they would have to bear with the racial inequality in the meantime. America's first black man to earn a Ph.D. (a Ph.D. from Harvard), W. E. B. Du Bois dissented strongly from Washington's passive waiting (717). Du Bois pushed for "the same intellectual opportunities open to whites" to be open to blacks; he also declared "blacks must actively resist all forms of racial discrimination (717 ... "What more do you people want? (P. McKissack and F. McKissack 62)" Lastly, African-Americans developed a determination for progress during the Progressive Era, utilizing ideals from the mi...

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... where near equal with the white facilities. This aggravated the blacks and they finally protested against segregation and their struggle to vote. Booker T. Washington, a former slave from Virginia, and William E. B. Du Bois, a brilliant scholar, were two leaders with different views. Washington focused more on improving African American education and industrial skill rather than the injustices they have suffered while ... Du Bois focused more on demanding equality and standing up to discrimination. The NAACP was an organization that was against the discrimination and segregation of Afri...

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... , got over a thousand people in New York together to meet. A year later the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed. These blacks, headed by the "militant" leader W.E.B. Du Bois, demanded the same as the original members of the Niagara Movement founded in 1905: -Freedom of speech and criticism -An unfettered and unsubsidized press -Manhood suffrage [note, no "womanhood"] -The ... , got over a thousand people in New York together to meet. A year later the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed. These blacks, headed by the "milita...

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... looked upon the child- Further research on the matter exposed that not only was a black physician not available, that no white physician was willing to treat his son: "Although Burghardt Du Bois, infant son of William and Nina, succumbed to a disease (diphtheria), his father was unable, in the child's critical hours, to find either a black physician to attend his dying son or ... a white physician in Atlanta who was willing to treat a black child. Occasionally Du Bois writes as if he is somehow beyond or above the veil, but the sad reality of his son's death and its tragic circumstance ...

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