Washington was born a slave on a tobacco farm in Hales Ford, Virginia on April 5, 1856. was a great public speaker who mainly spoke about blacks earning the white man's respect rather than keep fighting for freedom. W.E.B. DuBois on the other hand was born in Great Barrington, Massachusettes on Febuary 23, 1868. W.E.B. was also a great public speaker who wrote amazing books. W.E.B. thought that if you fight and prove yourself as an equall, you will become equall to your oppressors. .
Booker T. helped build an all black school university called The Tuskegee Institute. This university was built for teaching vocational "hands on" education. Booker T. felt that since all blacks had been slaves for so long, they would be strong enough, and have a hard working attitude to do carpentry, and farm work.
W.E.B. wasn't only trying to help blacks; he wanted to help Asian, Latin, and European-Americans also. He wrote his Harvard thesis on "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in America." DuBois studied very hard to learn how this race problem began. He thought it was because of ignorance.
Both W.E.B. and Booker T. were exelent public speakers, and both had a thirst for education. Booker T. was too poor to go to school so he became a janitor to pay for it. W.E.B. got a scholarship to Fisk Univirsity then later transferred to Harvard where he planned to get his Ph.D when he found out that Ruthford B. Hayes, head of the fund to "Educate Negros," was giving a scholarship to a black man. W.E.B. signed up and got into the University of Berlin, Germany.
Booker T. made great speaches to help earn respect for black people. One was the Atlanta Exposition Address, where he stood in front of a completely white audience, and told black people to start working at the level they are at, and not fight for things they can't handle yet. Whites thought that this was a good idea and Booker T. was accepted into white culture. Booker T. was also a great teacher.
As the nineteenth century approached, America was facing many problems: political, economic, and, arguably the most critical - social. Even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, African Americans struggled to end the racial division that had conquered the United States for centuries. Two men ...
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois were two very important civil rights leaders in the late 1800's to early 1900's with common goals, but different ways of achieving them. Booker T. Washington was a little more patient in his philosophy. He wanted African Americans to quiet down about all the ...
The Distinctly Different Viewpoints of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois The life of an African-American in the late 1800s and early 1900s was one of poverty without education or equality. After the Civil War ended, the South was war-torn and impoverished and under Reconstruction. Almos...
W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington were two great leaders of the African American community in the late 19th and early 20th century. However, these two scholars disagreed on strategies for African American social and economical progress. Their opposing philosophies can be found in much of today...
Booker T. Washington was born in Virginia in 1856. Even though he was born into slavery, he received a teaching degree from a freedman's school in Hampton, Virginia. In 1881 he founded what is now known as Tuskegee University. Booker T. Washington's major focus was to educate African Americans in ag...
Washington, DuBois, and Racial Discourse As the dialogues on race wear on - and as America, as a country, continues to suffer from racial fractures that run deep indeed - the historical figures (meaning just that - the figurative modern representations) of Booker T. ... So to view Dubois" narrative we must first turn the page back, as it were, to Booker T. ... The strangest - and most important - feeling that one takes away from Up From Slavery is that the book isn't at all about Booker T. ... In order to gain entrance to the school, in order to get an education to further free himself,...
Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Dubois Despite their obvious differences, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois, agreed that the blacks in the south had to reach one goal: first-class citizenship. Their methods of reaching this goal varied between the two black men. Booker T. Washington believe...
To serve the cause of human freedom, a person has to be brave, a leader, patient and unselfish. Throughout history many people have fought for what they believed in to gain freedom for their people. One man who did this is Booker T. Washington. Washington was an African American advocate who wan...
History Comparison Essay The future of the freedman W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. ... Booker T. Washington was born four years before the civil war had begun, Dubois was born three years after the civil war had come to an end. ... Dubois's and Washington's slightly different backgrounds caused them to have different views on the future of freedman in the United States. ... Washington and Dubois were both visionaries who shared the same goal, although they had there own individual ways to obtain that goal. ...