Booker B. Wells And W. E. B Dubois Essay

Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. DuBois were 3 very influential African Americans in the United States. After the Reconstruction Era these three came and all organized education for other African Americans. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois both focused enhancing studies for older groups. As for Wells, she focused on teaching children. Ida B. Wells experienced Jim Crow laws first hand when she was ordered to move to the African American car on the train when she bought a ticket for first-class. She refused and was forcibly removed then bit the hand of the man who tried to removed her. After that she attempted to sue the railroad company but the decision was overturned. That train ride led Wells to write about the issues of race and politics in the South under the pen name “Iola”. She then became the the owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. Another incident where her friends were unjustly lynched drove her to write her articles focusing on the lynching and wrongful deaths of African Americans. Ida B. Wells established several civil rights organization and is also considered a founder of the NAACP (which she later cut ties from) along with W.E.B. DuBois. DuBois was born free in the north, which already …show more content…
Washington, like Wells, was born a slave. He always showed and interest in reading and learning, he got a job as a houseboy of a white schoolteacher named Viola Ruffner who soon saw potential in him and allowed him to go to school for an hour a day. He grew up to attend, Wayland Seminary and Hampton University and graduated with high marks. The Alabama legislature approved $2,000 for a colored school and (now known as the Tuskegee University) he was recommended to run the school. Washington believed in African Americans just letting the whites get what they wanted. He announced the ‘Atlanta Compromise’ which basically expressed how he thought African Americans should just remain peaceful and socially separate from