W.E.B DuBois vs Booker T. Washington

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W.E.B DuBois vs Booker T. Washington
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William Edward Burghardt DuBoisPersistent manly
agitation is the way to liberty

• Attended Fisk University, Harvard and the
  University of Berlin.
• He was the first African American to earn a PhD
  from Harvard.
• Founded the Niagra Movement which argued for free
  speech and the ability to criticize the
  government and society accompanied by a refusal
  to apologize for questions.
• DuBois argued that African Americans work for
  social equality (voting restrictions lift,
  admittance in to colleges) immediately.
• Helped begin the NAACP
• Wanted African Americans to seek higher
  education, especially in the liberal arts
  (history, languages, philosophy) and that they
  should not settle for work.
• How do you think most Americans felt about
  duBois??

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Booker T. WashingtonOne man cannot hold
another man down in the ditch without remaining
down in the ditch with him.

• Born in to slavery
• Leader of the Tuskegee Institute, a teacher
  training college
• Believed that African Americans should focus on
  economic equality and attempt to fit in to white
  American culture. He said that African Americans
  should accept that progress for civil rights
  would be slow but that by becoming economically
  successful, they would eventually be given
  rights.
• This movement was called the Tuskegee Machine.
• How do you think white America felt about
  Booker T. Washington?