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            Throughout history, many different views have been taken by African American leaders on how to solve the racial injustice that has plagued the African American community ever since they became known as independent citizens in this country. This is shown best by the great differences in methods used by the African American leaders Booker T. Washington, with his more peaceful views and methods, and W.E.B. Dubois, with his more do or die attitude toward the problem. Their contrasting views and some of the words, phrases, and facts they use in their speeches arouse different emotions, such as anger and understanding at times from the audiences they are aimed at.
             Booker T. Washington was an educator as well as a reformer, and the most influential African American leader of his time. In his speech he preached a philosophy to the African American race of self-help. He urged African Americans to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on making themselves better through hard work and education. He believed in education in the crafts, industrial and farming skills to further the African American race and help them prosper. This, he said, would win the respect of whites and lead to African Americans being fully accepted as citizens and desegregating them giving them a chance at being prominent members of society. .
             W.E.B. Dubois on the other hand had a different approach on how to solve the racial injustices going on in the world. DuBois believed firmly that political action and academic education would be the way to gain full citizenship rights for African Americans. He stressed the need for further education in the African American community because he believed that African American leadership should come from college-trained backgrounds. DuBois helped found a civil rights protest organization called the Niagara Movement. Its members were mostly well-educated African American men that were from northern cities such as New York and Baltimore.