During the late 1800s there were very few educational opportunities for blacks in the United States. In order to combat this dilemma blacks created private educational institutions, however the one downfall to this solution is that only those from more prosperous families could attend. This was a very important era for blacks, everyone was eager to get an education after years of being forced to stay illiterate. During this time there was two names that was wildly know in the black and white community, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois. These two men had very brilliant minds, but with two very different ways of thinking, other than them being black males there was nothing else comparing the two. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
