W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T Washington
...ation. He urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity. This, he said, would win the respect of whites and lead to African Americans being fully accepted as citizens and integrated into all strata of society. For Washington, a slow acquisition of wealth and culture was the best way to gain equality III.W.E.B Dubois Dubois felt that Washington's plan to gain equality was only going to further exacerbate the oppression of African-American's in the United States and more specifically the South. Washington's strategy would serve only to perpetuate white oppression. Du Bois advocated political action and a civil rights agenda (he helped found the NAACP). Instead of a plan of accommodation, Dubois favored a plan of political action....