Born a slave in Virginia, Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. During the post-reconstruction era, between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. “he urged blacks to accept their inferior social position for the present and to strive to raise themselves through vocational training and economic self-reliance (Johnson,NP)”. The technique Washington used worked because he lived his life prioritizing education, leading to future influential people, basing or contradicting their beliefs off of his, and finally . Booker T. Washington’s civil rights policy that blacks should work their way up to undeniable equality
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W.E.B. DuBois was a northern-born African-American that graduated from Harvard. DuBois had a contrary belief on Civil Rights. DuBois believed that “Political and social equality must come first before blacks could hope to have their fair share of the economic pie (W.E.B. DuBois, NP)”. What this meant was that the only way blacks could get more money and be a part of the economy, they must stand up for themselves. Paired by Washington's argument DuBois’s was supported mostly by blacks. But the fact was that if an African-American so much as disagreed to a white man in the south, he would be charged and/or hurt and wouldn't be able to defend himself. This is clearly shown in the “Plessy V. Ferguson” case. In this case, Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a white only train cart. Plessy was asked to leave to the colored train and he refused to move. Plessy was immediately arrested and it was determined that “Separate facilities were constitutional as long as they were equal (Wormser, NP)”. The Jim Crow laws prohibited blacks from standing up for themselves because their engagement with whites was slim to none. Du Bois's idea might make sense to himself because he never lived in the south and never experienced the difficulties southern blacks did. Washington's ideas, although diminished, were shared with people like Martin Luther King Jr.. King was only as famous as he was because he worked to get there and whites respected him for
W.E.B. DuBois was a northern-born African-American that graduated from Harvard. DuBois had a contrary belief on Civil Rights. DuBois believed that “Political and social equality must come first before blacks could hope to have their fair share of the economic pie (W.E.B. DuBois, NP)”. What this meant was that the only way blacks could get more money and be a part of the economy, they must stand up for themselves. Paired by Washington's argument DuBois’s was supported mostly by blacks. But the fact was that if an African-American so much as disagreed to a white man in the south, he would be charged and/or hurt and wouldn't be able to defend himself. This is clearly shown in the “Plessy V. Ferguson” case. In this case, Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a white only train cart. Plessy was asked to leave to the colored train and he refused to move. Plessy was immediately arrested and it was determined that “Separate facilities were constitutional as long as they were equal (Wormser, NP)”. The Jim Crow laws prohibited blacks from standing up for themselves because their engagement with whites was slim to none. Du Bois's idea might make sense to himself because he never lived in the south and never experienced the difficulties southern blacks did. Washington's ideas, although diminished, were shared with people like Martin Luther King Jr.. King was only as famous as he was because he worked to get there and whites respected him for