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The discrepancy between Booker T. Washington’s leadership and that of W.E.B. Du Bois was quite obvious in the nineteenth century. Booker T. Washington was born a slave in the South, while William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born free in the North during a time of lesser race discrimination. Washington delved in the soil and the teachings of the Bible while Du Bois was emerged in the disbelieving liberalism of Europe. ... ” Within the contents of this paper I plan to compare the strategies of these two men concerning the American Revolution, in doing so I also plan to point out several of the strengths and weaknesses of each plan. ...
In the 1876 presidential election the Republican nominee Rutherford B. ... Then came the revolution of 1876, which as W.E.B Du Bois described was, “the suppression of the Negro votes, the changing and shifting of ideals, and the seeking of new lights in the great night.”
During this revolution Booker T. Washington rose to power as essentially a leader of not one race but three,-a compromiser between the South, the North and the Negro. ...
At the psychological moment when the nation was a little ashamed of having bestowed so much sentiment on Negroes, and concentrating its energies on dollars; Booker came up with a single definite program. ... Overall the nation’s reaction to Washington and his program was of mixed. W.E.B Du Bois analyzed this program and thought that Mr. Washington was a successful man that stood as a recognized spokesman among the Negro race, but he also had some short comings and mistaken ideas within his policies that Du Bois thought should be addressed and criticized. Du Bois states that, “Mr. Washington’s program naturally takes an economic cast, which becomes the gospel of work and money to such an extent as apparently almost completely to overshadow the higher aims of life.” He also states that “Washington’s program practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races. Also the reaction of the war time has given rise to race-prejudice against Negroes, and Washington withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens. ... Du Bois says that this is not the case with Washington’s policy which advocates submission. ...
In answer to this Booker T. Washington claims that the Negro can survive only through submission.
Approximate Word count = 1949
Approximate Pages = 7.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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