Slavery In W. E. Dubois And Booker T. Washington

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The past of the American nation has long been determined by the different disputes, dilemma, and complications in society that citizens had encountered. When slavery was dividing the North and the South the country was starting to allocate its inhabitants. Most slaves were black which were treated poorly and exploited based on the terminology that it was their place on Earth. Great leaders such as W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington developed different strategies to oppose this idea of slavery. As well as racial segregation which based on color separates facilities that are common among many. For example, there is a lack of services and opportunities such as education, employment, housing, and transportation. Most often refers to the dissociation

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