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The New Negro Movement was a major era in African American history, that emerged in the early 20th century as a huge moment for civil rights. During this major era, there was a surge of art, literature, and, most importantly, political activism based on redefining racial oppression. Two major figures in the New Negro Movement were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois, whose writings helped African Americans in many ways. They both fought for civil rights, supporting the African American Community. Even though they both advocated for progress and the empowerment of the African American community, they had different approaches to reaching racial equality. This essay's goal is to explore the visions of both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Boi's …show more content…
Washington and Du Bois talked about the importance of education in their visions for the advancement of African Americans. Booker T. Washington was a big advocate for more practical skills than intellectual skills, learning skills that would help them economically, “The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house” (574). W.E.B. Du Boi believed that instead they should be taught intellectual skills, “If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men; if we make technical skill the object of education, we may possess artisans but not, in nature, men. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools—intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it—this is the curriculum of that higher education that must underlie true life.” (WEB Dubois vision of the Talented Tenth Pg 1) He did not want to just teach each of them how to make money, only, rather different arts and intellectual skills. While they both wanted better education for African Americans, they believed in diverse
The New Negro Movement was a major era in African American history, that emerged in the early 20th century as a huge moment for civil rights. During this major era, there was a surge of art, literature, and, most importantly, political activism based on redefining racial oppression. Two major figures in the New Negro Movement were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois, whose writings helped African Americans in many ways. They both fought for civil rights, supporting the African American Community. Even though they both advocated for progress and the empowerment of the African American community, they had different approaches to reaching racial equality. This essay's goal is to explore the visions of both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Boi's …show more content…
Washington and Du Bois talked about the importance of education in their visions for the advancement of African Americans. Booker T. Washington was a big advocate for more practical skills than intellectual skills, learning skills that would help them economically, “The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house” (574). W.E.B. Du Boi believed that instead they should be taught intellectual skills, “If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men; if we make technical skill the object of education, we may possess artisans but not, in nature, men. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools—intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it—this is the curriculum of that higher education that must underlie true life.” (WEB Dubois vision of the Talented Tenth Pg 1) He did not want to just teach each of them how to make money, only, rather different arts and intellectual skills. While they both wanted better education for African Americans, they believed in diverse