Du Bois, wanted to challenge segregation through political action. ... Many of Du Bois theories were in response to the writings of Booker T. ... Du Bois disagreed. ... Du Bois had a very different plan than for the struggle for black equality. Du Bois felt that the black leadership of the time, which was mainly Washington. ...
Both of them employ apocalyptic language, with Du Bois displaying it explicitly and Delany implicitly. ... For Julia, Jim is an unknowable stranger who is "alien in blood and culture " (Du Bois 8). ... Furthermore, Du Bois suggests that Jim's unknowability to Julia is just due to his race, a race that is different than her own. ... In this sense, Delany and Du Bois highlight similar situations and demand similar changes in real-world society. ... Du Bois indicates later in the text that the alienation Jim experiences results from racism. ...
Burghardt Du Bois states that "when Lincoln emancipated the slaves" many of the uneducated slaves were left with "No jobs, No homes, No education" (para.1) They were basically homeless and they had nothing. ... The one negative thing about the Bureau is "they failed to establish good will between ex-masters and freedmen" (para.6) Similar to Du Bois, Emerson states that "when Lincoln was running for president he at first just wanted to contain the institution of slavery, not abolish it" (para.1) Both authors used ethos to describe how the situation was ...
African Americans continued to live as second class citizens in the 1950's and 1960's, especially in the South, despite the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibited states from denying anyone the right to vote due to race. States passed laws directed at separating the r...
Du Bois dissented strongly from Washington's passive waiting (717). Du Bois pushed for "the same intellectual opportunities open to whites" to be open to blacks; he also declared "blacks must actively resist all forms of racial discrimination (717)." ... Du Bois and Booker T. ...
