During the late 19th century and early 20th century emancipation of slaves and the freedom of African-Americans was a pressing issue. There are two prominent different proposed means of solutions presented at the time. Booker T. Washington presented one, he believed that slaves should not take violent action to gain freedom. W.E.B. Du Bois presented the other, he believed that African-Americans should demand their freedom and should try to achieve it by using any means possible. Booker T. Washington and W.E.D. Du Bois offered different strategies, all of which were appropriate in the historical context of 1877-1915.
Booker T. Washington thought that African-Americans should not use violence when gaining their freedom and dealing with problems of poverty. By the 1920's the percentage of African-Americans enrolled in school between the ages of 5 and 19 had doubled from that of 1860. (Doc A) This statistic shows Booker T. Washington's method of gaining freedom because of in the increased rate of education of African-Americans with violence. T. Thomas Fortune, a black activist and newspaper editor went to Tuskegee and recalled his time there. He discovered that in that town of 1000 acres of land there are 400 colored, 28 of which are teachers male and female all because of the Booker T. Washington's hard work to gain African-Americans freedom. (Doc G) Illiteracy of African-Americans began to decrease from the year 1890 to the year 1910. (Doc B) This just shows that more African-Americans became literate and became one step closer to gaining their freedom. All of these ways show how passive reform helped African-Americans slowly gain their freedom and pried themselves out of the clutches of poverty. .
W.E.B. Du Bois was precocious individual who believed that fighting for their freedom was necessary for African-Americans. Lynching of African-American people from the year 1882-1915 increased then began to decrease then increased again.
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Booker T. Washington was born in Virginia in 1856. Even though he was born into slavery, he received a teaching degree from a freedman's school in Hampton, Virginia. In 1881 he founded what is now known as Tuskegee University. Booker T. Washington's major focus was to educate African Americans in ag...
To serve the cause of human freedom, a person has to be brave, a leader, patient and unselfish. Throughout history many people have fought for what they believed in to gain freedom for their people. One man who did this is Booker T. Washington. Washington was an African American advocate who wan...
Parallel to the disagreements of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the civil rights movements of the 1960's, African American leaders W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington had different strategies to move towards African American progress. Du Bois illustrates his disagreements towards Wa...
As the nineteenth century approached, America was facing many problems: political, economic, and, arguably the most critical - social. Even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, African Americans struggled to end the racial division that had conquered the United States for centuries. Two men ...
The Distinctly Different Viewpoints of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois The life of an African-American in the late 1800s and early 1900s was one of poverty without education or equality. After the Civil War ended, the South was war-torn and impoverished and under Reconstruction. Almos...
Booker T. Washington The end of the Civil War brought a time known as the Reconstruction. During this time, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. The newly freed slaves needed jobs, housing, and education in order to enter society, but the rejection of th...
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois were two very important civil rights leaders in the late 1800's to early 1900's with common goals, but different ways of achieving them. Booker T. Washington was a little more patient in his philosophy. He wanted African Americans to quiet down about all the ...
W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington were two great leaders of the African American community in the late 19th and early 20th century. However, these two scholars disagreed on strategies for African American social and economical progress. Their opposing philosophies can be found in much of today...
