Washington's speech responded to what some call the "Negro problem”
Washington's speech responded to what some call the "Negro problem”
These men both lived during the time of the industrial revolution, and had very different views on how to achieve equality between African-Americans and white people. These people had very different views and neither of their strategies seem to have been successful over time, and in this paper their ideas will be compared and contrasted. First information on Booker T. Washington who will be referred to as Booker. Booker was born a slave on April 5, 1856. He was born into slavery and was likely freed by the civil war.…
Washington considered himself to be a bridge between the races. He believed that to first improve African Americans and their position in society, they must be diligent through education, industrial training/work, and business ownership/investment. When this has been achieved, Washington believed, equal rights would follow. Washington’s upbringings were a great factor in how his decisions were made. Being born, enslaved, gave him a first person idea of what African Americans are going through.…
If African American leaders in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries agreed on any one point, it would be thus: the problem of the times was the problem of race relations. W.E.B. DuBois called it the “problem of the color-line,” and Fredrick Douglass the “race problem,” but no matter the name, the plague of the period was the enmity between white Americans and black Americans (vii; 5). The Talented Tenth, however, did not always agree on how best to advocate for greater inclusion and equality for black people…
(Washington 436). According to Booker T. Washington, the Negro man must depend on, look, and go with everything the white man does. The white man who by the way, is the “best influence” for the black man, is also the best escape from the ideology of blacks and whites being different. By this, Booker T. Washington confused the idea of being black in the United States; he throughout the essay regularly used the idea of the friendship of black and whites. The idea that might appear as a good solution for African-Americans in the south and the north since people wanted to be equal, but also, this idea confused many African-Americans, Booker T. Washington is telling people from his race to rely on the same people who mistreated them for…
In 1895, Booker presented the “Atlanta Compromise” speech. In this speech he said that African Americans should accept social segregation as long as whites allowed them economic progress, educational opportunity, and justice in the courts; this made some African Americans mad, especially in the north. People like W.E.B. Du Bois criticized Washington for not demanding equality, and later became a mediator for full and equal rights in every aspect of a person’s life. And although Booker had done much to assist the African American society, there was some truth in the…
Washington experienced slavery, and knows that speaking out and fighting back is not the way to equality. DuBois believes that blacks should take action in order to have their opinions heard and agitate for voting rights. However, he was opposed to allowing uneducated blacks to vote. DuBois and many other critics called Washington’s approach accommodation. DuBois did not believe blacks should be “submissive.”…
Compare and Contrast Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois were both influential African American leaders in the early 1900’s. Both men were highly educated and dedicated their lives to changing the status of African Americans in a post Civil War America. Although both Washington and DuBois had the same dreams of equality for African Americans, they had very different ideas on how best to achieve this equality. Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans could achieve equality by first accepting that subordination to whites was a necessary evil.…
During the Atlanta Exposition Address from 1895, given on Sept. 18, 1895. Booker T. Washington spoke to a primarily white audience. The Cotton States and International Exposition Speech (Atlanta Exposition Address) was based on the topic of race relations. The speech helped to lay the foundation for the Atlanta compromise. This was an agreement between the African-American leaders and the Southern white leaders, the agreement being that the Southern blacks would work quietly and without resistance to the white political rule, while the Southern whites would make sure that the blacks would receive a basic education and receive due process in the court of law.…
The “The Atlanta Compromise” (Atlanta) by Booker T. Washington and “The Niagara Movement” (Niagara) by W.E.B. DuBois have the overall theme of equality throughout their speeches. The two speeches discuss voting and educational rights of African Americans compared to that of white Americans. DuBois and Washington both agree that voting rights for African Americans would give them equality with white Americans, but the two speakers believe in taking different pathways to get rights. However, only DuBois believes that education is also another important right to be given to African Americans in order for them to gain equality. Washington believes that education is important, but it does not matter if education is equal in order to reach an equality…
Booker T. Washington was a major force in the fight for economic equality for African Americans, however he had a much different approach than more African Americans did. He stated in a speech at the International Exposition in Atlanta in 1895 that to promote the economy of a New South he believed that African Americans should “work diligently for their own uplift and prosperity rather than preoccupy themselves with political and civil rights. Their success and hard work, he implied, would eventually convince southern whites to grant these rights.” (Openstax pg 619). White southern and northerners liked Washington’s model of race relations because it meant that white people were not responsible for helping African Americans in their fight for economic justice.…
Washington’s philosophy, though not the one carried out in the end, was one of the most revolutionary and well-conceived plans for racial equality America has ever come upon. Many African American people at the time were jobless and poor, but being hired by white businessmen. Washington’s plan created businesses run by African Americans where African Americans could find work, and under his schooling, they could find an education. Washington stated himself that, “The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing” (Atlanta Exposition Address. Pg. 948).…
Despite the efforts of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and President Theodore Roosevelt, racial inequality remained an issue. Washington made a famous speech called the “Atlanta Compromise” which said that blacks should focus on gaining economic power rather than concentrate on gaining civil rights and political equality. When Washington’s plan didn’t bring forth any better change, DuBois voiced his that blacks should strive for full rights immediately rather than wait for them to be handed to them because that would never happen. He founded the NAACP to fight for the rights he and other African Americans were entitled to but weren’t given. President Roosevelt set an example for the people on how they should act.…
During this time period, a very important speech known as the Atlanta Compromise was given by Booker T. Washington, who makes an appearance in the…
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B DuBois used different strategies when dealing with the problems faced by African Americans at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Segregation was a big problem during this time and African Americans were the ones facing the brunt of this issue. Both Washington and DuBois tried to fight for equality of African Americans and were in hopes that their actions, as well as programs, would help aid society toward agreeing with them. Washington was more about trying to gradually institute equality whereas DuBois took a more immediate approach. Even though Washington and DuBois took on different views, it can be agreed that both men took important steps to improve equality for African Americans…
One such casualty of the riot was J. Max Barber’s The Voice of the Negro. Following the riot Barber moved to Chicago where he attempted to restart his magazine under a new name, The Voice, but it folded in 1907. Internal tensions within the African-American community also increased when it came to decide how best to further equality. In 1895 Booker T. Washington gave his famous Atlanta Compromise speech where he encouraged black advancement through education and commerce rather than pushing for equal political rights. W.E.B. DuBois on the other hand believed in a more direct-action approach to obtaining and maintaining their political rights.…