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 .
