Summary:
Compares the views of the Black Civil Rights activists of the early 20th century, Booker T Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Explains their varying views on how to best achieve equality. Provides biographical detail on each man.
W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington suggested very dissimilar and conflicting approaches for addressing the problems faced by African-Americans during the Progressive Era. Washington proposed a docile and submissive plan of "gradualism", and as he clearly stated in Document D, he believed ."..agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing." Washington's approach to the issue of racism and social equality was one of slow and constant infiltration of the ambition of equality, until the white populace had become accustomed to the equal presence of African-Americans. The strategy of W.E.B. Du Bois in dealing with the racism and inequality of the early 20th century was.....
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