... educated and to work in agriculture and industry, to accept their second-class status in American society. Washington wanted blacks to stay submissive until the time was right. Many of Du Bois theories were in response to the writings of Booker T. Washington. Washington believed that blacks in America needed pride in themselves in order to rise in a white dominated society. His concern ... was for solidarity and self-help. Du Bois agreed with him in some aspects but had different ideas for helping the black community. Washington called for Negroes to give up higher education and politic...

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... citizens, American freemen." Fortune was the leading black editor and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. while often eclipsed in historical memory by the mythic duality of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. washington, he is essential to a full understanding of black leadership after recon struction.He grappled , above all, with the funddamental question of what it meant for a black American ... . Washington, particularly regarding the education and economic development of the race. And Fortune insists that he had"nothing in with Dr.Washington, especially his his ...

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