Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois had opinions regarding the race and role of African Americans that differed in many ways such as: ways of achieving education and how equality should be attained. They both had two very diverse proposals when it came to African Americans improving their education and overall situation. Regarding their unlike proposals, they both shared the common goal of helping the African American community. Washington and Du Bois had very different upbringings, which nature their decisions from the slightest, to the highest.
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Washington and Dubois’s ideas for achieving black equality are different in a number of ways. One way that their ideas differ is through ways of achieving education. Washington designed, developed, and guided the Tuskegee Institute which became a foundation …show more content…
Washington considered himself to be a bridge between the races. He believed that to first improve African Americans and their position in society, they must be diligent through education, industrial training/work, and business ownership/investment. When this has been achieved, Washington believed, equal rights would follow. Washington’s upbringings were a great factor in how his decisions were made. Being born, enslaved, gave him a first person idea of what African Americans are going through. W. E. B. Du Bois agreed that self-improvement was a good idea, but that it should not happen at the expense of giving up immediate full citizenship rights. He believed that African Americans should demand equality. He did not believe that black men should stand around and wait for civil rights to come. Rather, blacks should fight for the rights that the white men have and to not hold back. Du Bois grew up in a primarily white society which caused him to have a third person view on what tragedies have taken place over the years. Unlike other white men, he saw the good in blacks and did not see the need for mistreatment of humans based on the color of their
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Washington and Dubois’s ideas for achieving black equality are different in a number of ways. One way that their ideas differ is through ways of achieving education. Washington designed, developed, and guided the Tuskegee Institute which became a foundation …show more content…
Washington considered himself to be a bridge between the races. He believed that to first improve African Americans and their position in society, they must be diligent through education, industrial training/work, and business ownership/investment. When this has been achieved, Washington believed, equal rights would follow. Washington’s upbringings were a great factor in how his decisions were made. Being born, enslaved, gave him a first person idea of what African Americans are going through. W. E. B. Du Bois agreed that self-improvement was a good idea, but that it should not happen at the expense of giving up immediate full citizenship rights. He believed that African Americans should demand equality. He did not believe that black men should stand around and wait for civil rights to come. Rather, blacks should fight for the rights that the white men have and to not hold back. Du Bois grew up in a primarily white society which caused him to have a third person view on what tragedies have taken place over the years. Unlike other white men, he saw the good in blacks and did not see the need for mistreatment of humans based on the color of their