Washington Vs. Du Bois Dbq
Washington vs. Du Bois DBQ
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois each had their own approaches for dealing with Black Americans discrimination problems during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Booker T. Washington’s accommodation approach and W.E.B Dubois’s more aggressive approach were both appropriate and impacted different aspects of blacks lives that the other person’s strategy was not able to do. Even though both men wanted to pretty much achieve the same goals, each of their approaches were different. Their strategies both helped their race through the times of struggle. They fought for the cause in very different ways but both very efficient.
Washington’s strategy to educate blacks took time but it eventually helped blacks get out of poverty. He helped find and open up job training schools like the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. He used funds he usually received from national political leaders including President Roosevelt. According the document A, these schools resulted in the increase of black literacy from 1890 to 1910. In his Atlanta Compromise Address, he explains that by making blacks useful to the markets of the world, blacks could no longer be excluded. Following Washington’s speech at the Atlanta Compromise, the number of black and white lynching’s decreased (Doc C). The decrease of lynching’s allowed blacks to focus on education rather than the deaths of their loved ones. Through this, blacks were able to attain an education which would ultimately allow them to make money and get out of poverty.
W.E.B Dubois strategy of immediate integration of black and whites led to the establishment of black legal and political rights. He believed that Washington’s gradual approach to improve black lifestyle was not what the black community needed if they were to overcome racial tensions. He decided to take matters into his own hands. Dubois helped to form the Niagara Movement in 1905, where he decided to take a more radical approach to racial justice. He wanted immediate freedom of speech and the press, full black suffrage, which the Jim