... -class Negroes. Although Dubois has a similar goal of equality and civil rights for African Americans, he has a very different approach in achieving this goal. W.E.B Dubois was born in 1868 to a free family in North, and he had always been around education growing up. Dubois attended Fisk University, Harvard University, and the University of Berlin (Gibson). Dubois and Washington come from completely ... and civil rights. He believes that, as African Americans, their job is to reject the work and ideas of Washington as a leader (Dubois 44). In 1903, Dubois published a collection of essay...

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... our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame....We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves."(from Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.") Their writing also defined the African American heritage and celebrated their new identity as Americans. Some common themes ... Locke published his most talked about essay "The New Negro", in his essay he urged that "Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid." His essays also proposed "smashing" al...

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