Compare And Contrast W. E. B. Dubois And Jar Myrdal

There were many men who help gain black freedom and education, but there were a couple special men who don’t seem to get much recognition. The following men were W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Gunnar Myrdal. These men were all writers and activists in studying and trying to fix the American racial problem. They all three wanted better for the African American population and for them to have a better education. These men participated in different groups and organizations to accomplish the goals they had set. W.E.B. Du Bois was a man of several talents he was a great writer and was an intelligent man who study at Harvard and many other top schools in the United States. He was known for a couple of his good writings such as “Souls of Black Folk” and “Black Reconstruction in America”. He believed that the American people are being taught wrong about blacks. He wanted to reconstruct the stereotype of African Americans. He thought that many people were taught blacks were ignorant, that Negroes were lazy,dishonest, and extravagant. He pushed for people to realize the African American community were more than that, and that they were people too. He was a big founder in the NAACP. …show more content…
He wrote an Autobiographical sketch known as “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow”. This was a powerful short story that put you in Perspective of the life Wright had to live at an early age. It mainly focused how African Americans like himself were taught to always be kind to the white folks even when times got rough. He wrote about him getting beat by his mother for just getting into a fight , but getting into a fight with a white boy. Essentially he was trying to get the message of the mistreatment of blacks by white men with