Similarities Between Booker T. Washington And W. E. B. Dubois

Many people think WEB DuBois and Booker T. Washington as just rivals of their time. WEB DuBois believed in immediate equality for African Americans and wanted everyone to be equal. On the other hand Booker T. Washington wanted African Americans to accept their position and they would gain their equality gradually. In the end they were both Civil rights activists that wanted African American to be well educated and to be equal. Booker T. Washington did many great things during his lifetime.

The similarities between the two great African American leader in 19th and 20th century. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois. Both were the hope of generation because they were able to speak up to the rights for African American. Both wanted good education for African American for them to be recognize in the community and build a standard by their professions. both were against lynching because both wanted the lynching to be over .However, both of them have different way for Black social and economic progress.

Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. Dubois were both famous activist. They did take different directions in how they approached how to gain their freedom. W.E.B. wanted to fight to gain everyone's freedom while Booker T. chose to with the government and overlook the separate but racial stuff. There early life was different. So was their role in the civil rights movement.

Booker T. Washington and William Edward Burghardt DuBois were radical men for their time. Each advocated for blacks in their own ways making sure the welfare of blacks was a concern. Booker T. Washington believed that educating blacks would lead to them garnering respect. William Edward Burghardt DuBois, on the other hand, felt blacks decided their own fates. He believed that whites could not dictate how they live.

W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington had a lot of things in common and a lot of things different from each other in the late 19th century and early 20th century. They were two influential leaders in the black community. Although they are both leaders they have different opinions on what black people should do in order to fit into American society. Washington and DuBois both believed in education but had two different beliefs about education. Washington believed in gradual equality for black people, he believed in vocational education.

Ifakorede W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington : Ideas in Making Progress Against Racism W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were both noticeable African American pioneers who had various thoughts regarding how to gain ground against bigotry in the US. Booker T. Washington trusted in a technique of gradualism and convenience. He accepted that African Americans ought to zero in on professional training and financial independence, as opposed to political tumult and social fairness. Washington trusted that by demonstrating their monetary worth to society, African Americans could steadily gain the appreciation and acknowledgment of white Americans. He broadly expressed this methodology in his 1895 Atlanta Article Address, where he called for African Americans to

Due to the political, civil, and institutional failures for African Americans during the Reconstruction era, two pioneers posited programs for uplift: W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. In Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois argued Washington’s solutions created a triple paradox that encouraged disenfranchisement, self-deprecating pacifism, and academic ignorance. Moreover, DuBois found Washington was misguided by three dangerous half-truths: The South was justified in its treatment of African Americans, higher education was wrong, and uplift was primarily the burden of African Americans. Conversely, Du Bois argued to judge the South with discriminate criticism, which reoriented African American political thought. Furthermore, Du Bois demanded

The concept and discourse surrounding the battle for racial uplift has remained a pillar of Black activism and intellectual debates for over a century. While there have been a multitude of individuals involved in the struggle for racial uplift whose names never made it into the history books, there have also been a small number of individuals for whom history did capture. Two of the most famous members of the racial uplift battle were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. While both Washington and Dubois made it of paramount importance to improve the lives of Black people living in American society, they disagreed on the methodologies for how this racial uplift should be implemented. Through a comparative analysis of Booker T. Washington’s and W.E.B. Du Bois's theories on racial uplift, this paper contends that while both Du Bois and Washington highlight the importance of the power of individual agency, they differ markedly to the degree in which they emphasize multiple social institutions and the power of the social institutions to drive positive change in American Society.

The Crisis focuses on both proving yourself and demanding rights; The various advertisements found throughout the article, show that they offer opportunities for blacks to become successful. During this time, Washington and DuBois were two figures who were promoting black excellence in their own ideas. Washington believed that African Americans should create a separate society where they are not dependents on whites; they would create their own economy, towns and even learn in a vocational school but most importantly, Washington didn’t believe that fighting for citizenship was necessary, that It would come on its own. His ideas were popular among whites from both north and south because Washington emphasized on how whites could work together, but be separate. DuBois on the other hand, believed that

The problem of black leadership between 1895 and 1915 was raised by the celebrated debate between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois. For two decades Washington established a dominant tone of gradualism and among blacks, while W.E.B. Dubois introduced a different approach. Both Washington and DuBois wanted the same thing for blacks, first-class citizenship, but their approaches for obtaining it differed.  Washington focused more on the method of advising blacks to start at the bottom, obtain an education, and work their way up to citizenship. DuBois, on the other hand, believed that political action and academic education would be the means to achieve full citizenship rights for black Americans.

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois took different approaches to fight for civil rights but both fought for freedom and equality for people of color. Washington’s approach seemed

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois’ had similar perspectives but they also had different point of views of what black African American people needed to do in order to fit into mainstream American Society. In my opinion, I think that W.E.B had the best ideas for what the black race should do to fit into American Society. Du Bois feels as though black people should speak up for their rights and just speak up in general. Unlike Washington who was a compromiser he tells everyone what they want to hear and tries to appease them. Washington and Du Bois both believed in education.

Achieving African American Equality Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois were two of the most influential advocates for African American equality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Blatty, 1). Although both men ultimately had the same goal, their methods for achieving African American equality were remarkably different. To begin, the men had conflicting ideas about what constituted as African American equality. Booker T. Washington argued that the accumulation of wealth and the ability to prove that Blacks were productive members of society would be the mark of true equality for African Americans (Painter, 155).

However Booker T. Washington believed in having a more skillful education, consisting of learning how to trade, mastering agriculture skills and more things one would need to get a job. However, W.E.B DuBois also put many efforts to achieve equal rights towards African Americans which Booker T Washington put on hold. Booker T Washington’s plan was to make it so that “Blacks would [have to] accept segregation and discrimination but their eventual acquisition of wealth and culture would gradually win for them the respect and acceptance of whites”. This vision that Booker T Washington had “practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro race”. W.E.B commented on this process saying it was an attempt, “to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and underlings.”

Booker T. Washington believed that in order to eventually achieve racial equality African