... the highest number of lynchings, 165, in 1865, they began to become less common, down to 60 over 20 years. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois fought for the same thing, but had different ways of handling the situation in order to change the country we once knew. In the "Atlanta Compromise ... the blacks are prepared to receive their deserved rights. Washington had a self-help approach didn"t directly challenge the white supremacy to the fullest. W.E.B. Du Bois voiced his opinion in The Souls of Black Folk, Document E. He wants the people to know that it isn"t possible for the blacks ...

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... industrial education and the accumulation of wealth in order to gain the respect of the whites, even if it meant suffering from racial inequalities for the time being. According to Du Bois, Washington was so engulfed with money that he disregarded crucial rights: "Mr. Washington's program naturally takes an economic cast, becoming a gospel of work and money to such an extent as ... apparently almost completely to overshadow the higher aims of life" (43). Among the many issues Du Bois and Washington disagreed upon, education was among them. Washington advocated industrial and vocational ...

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... system not merely a product of it. He was a slave who was freed. A man without neither a history, nor a surname to call his own. Du bois was born into a system of freedom. He never experienced having a master or the lack of freedom to move about as he pleased. He came into the ... a man to get up off the ground he must first convince the man holding him down to take his foot off his throat. Mr. W.E.B. Du bois was indeed a scholar and revolutionary. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was a graduate of Fisk University and the first Black to receive ... a doctoral degree fr...

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... the African American people of America would have to jump together. However, how to approach this obstacle met some difference of opinion between black rights advocates Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. While Du Bois's argument that black Americans deserved all the rights synonymous with U.S. citizenship was absolutely valid, Washington had a much more reasonable expectation of how the freed slaves and American society could ... unite towards equality. Du Bois hit the nail on the head as far as black legal rights. Blacks were not a subjugate race any longer. Eventually, if not if ...

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... to the challenge of forging a better life for the African Americans, two of the most notable were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois. Not surprising, these two prominent men had decidedly different views on how to build a better, fairer life for their brethren. Regardless of how ... Washington's efforts, it was those efforts that opened the door, softened the masses if you will, that allowed for the efforts of Du Bois's to be received. African Americans had few to nothing in the way of human or civil rights. They desired to be considered equal ... means to achieve this goal. Others ...

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... President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to the White House in 1901. Whites began to consult him on racial concerns, and over time he became a dominant force in the black community. W.E.B. Du Bois was a man of different origins than Washington. He received his education from Tennessee's Fisk University, and later was the first black to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught ... college to receive a liberal arts education rather than a vocational one (he argues that a vocational education was too specialized, and felt that the broader the education, the more adaptive the indiv...

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... would do whatever was beneficial for the whites. This kind of attitude would make the whites feel superior and make it harder for the blacks to be recognized as equal. Du Bois, on the other hand, directly says what needs to be done and its said in a manner than is straightforward and without anger or a sense that it is being demanded. It ... first place, so therefore it wouldn't be anything surprising. I"m sure some whites were angry and dismissed this document but I"m also pretty sure that some whites sympathized and realized that all Du Bois pointed out and said was true. It may have ...

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... of whites and lead to African Americans being fully accepted as citizens and integrated into all strata of society. W.E.B. Du Bois, a towering black intellectual, scholar and political thinker (1868-1963) said no--Washington's strategy would serve only to perpetuate white oppression. Du Bois advocated political action and a civil rights agenda (he helped found the NAACP). In addition, he argued that social ... tolerance for newspaper editors and intellectuals who pushed for equality rather than accommodationism, he suppressed their views by alienation and redundancy. The most eloquent an...

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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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• Grade Level: High School