Booker T Washington Vs Dubois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois vs. Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington both had different theories on the most effective way to gain equality for African Americans. They each had the same end goal, however, Du Bois way of being aggressive and fighting for liberal arts education seemed to have more of a positive impact on the African Americans than Washington’s peaceful, submissive, and formal approach. Washington is recollected predominantly for his "Atlanta Compromise" speech. In this discourse, he approached white America to give employments and mechanical horticultural training for Negroes. In return, blacks would surrender requests for social equity and civil rights. His message to the Negro was that political …show more content…
Du Bois noticed that Washington's obliging project created minimal genuine improvement for the race. Du Bois came to see Washington as a political leader who had excessive control and utilized it heartlessly further bolstering his own good fortune. In spite of the fact that Du Bois conceded that he was deserving of respect, he trusted Washington was a constrained and confused leader. Du Bois stated that Washington was asking that blacks surrender the main things they had ultimately been fighting for all along “it has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things,-- First, political power, Second, insistence on civil rights, Third, higher education of Negro youth,-- and concentrate all their energies on industrial education, the accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South.” (pg.699) he expected blacks to give up everything they had been working toward to become submissive. Du Bois states that by doing these three things “The disfranchisement of the Negro, second, The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro, …show more content…
For the most part, Du Bois restricted Washington's program since it was limited in its extension and targets, debased the study of the liberal arts, and overlooked civil, political, and social shameful acts and the monetary abuse of the African American society. Du Bois solidly trusted that constant unsettling, political activity, and scholarly education would be the way to accomplish full citizenship rights for African Americans. His educational reasoning straightforwardly affected his political approach. He focused on the need for liberal arts preparing in light of the fact that he trusted that black administration should originate from school prepared foundations. Du Bois' logic of the "Talented Tenth" was that a school instructed first class would outline, through their insight, the route for monetary and social height for the African