Compare And Contrast Dubois And Washington

This idea of self-image was import to DuBois, who believed that many African Americans had began to believe their status as second class citizens. Dubois. challenged the oppression of whites and had increasingly radical, for the time, stances on politics and argued that in planning our movements, in guiding our future development, that at times we rise above the pressing, but smaller questions of separate schools and cars, wage-discrimination and lynch law, to survey the whole questions of race in human philosophy and to lay, on a basis of broad knowledge and careful insight, those large lines of policy and higher ideals which may form our guiding lines and boundaries in the practical difficulties of every day and therefore should challenge …show more content…
Washington, who was a former slave and had therefore spent a lifetime of marginalization was unable to visualize the political progress blacks could have in a white dominant society. DuBois, who had grown up surrounded by whites and was able to academically succeed, adamantly opposed the ideas of biological white superiority. The two men both worked towards creating race equality through education. However, because of the the environments that they where raised each saw the the progress of the black movement differently. Washington felt as though for the time being blacks should accept discrimination and instead of fighting it should separate themselves from the problems of racism. DuBois believed that african Americans and whites could and should live together and the it was important for the black movement to fight for equality and against oppression. Their core argument focused on the role of education and the relationship between blacks and whats. DuBois argued that there was importance in higher education of writing, reading and learning whereas Washington would say that for the time being, at least, it is first and foremost important for blacks to learn skills that will provide lucrative income. The two fundamentally disagreed on the time line of black development and the steps to achieve this progress however in many ways these two figures complement each other. Washington hoped that one day