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The Concerns of Three

 

            
            
             At the end of the nineteenth century African Americans were being subjected to .
             cruelty and punishment that one would not wish on his worst enemy. Lynching occurred .
             randomly everywhere, not only in the south where most whites believed these acts of .
             brutality occurred. They were being kept from getting an education because of the color .
             of their skin and were living under the worst conditions imaginable. Ida B. Wells, .
             Booker T. Washington and William DuBois were African Americans that would stand up .
             to the white regimes and demand their rights as freedman and work toward bettering .
             conditions for blacks, as well as all human beings. The issues each author was concerned .
             with were different in critique but not in spirit. Ida B. Wells was very concerned with .
             the cruelty that African Americans were being subjected to. Booker T. Washington's .
             main goal was to educate all blacks beyond the courses of arithmetic and english and he .
             also proposed an industrial education. William DuBois focus was that of gender .
             discrimination as well as the advancement of education. .
             At this time all blacks were concerned with the occurrence of lynchings that were .
             occurring almost daily, but it was Ida B. Wells who addressed these issues specifically .
             and to bring these acts of extreme violence to the forefront of the publics conscience. In .
             the year of 1892, well over one hundred blacks were killed without any type of justice. .
             Whites were executing blacks for a number of different reasons including the so called .
             racial riots and the rape of white women, but the main cause seemed to be the hatred that .
             whites had towards the blacks solely based on the color of their skin.
             Booker T. Washington on the other hand, was focused on the fact that there was .
             an extreme lack of opportunity given to blacks to receive an education. After receiving a .
             degree from Fisk University, he moved back to the "Black Belt " of the south in .


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