“Of Mr.Booker T. Washington and others” was written by W.E.B Dubois as a critique of Washington and his views on the improvement of black life. The “Atlanta Exposition” was aimed at improving the tension between white and black Americans in the south. The thesis of this speech was that black Americans should be more concerned with furthering their economic standing instead of their social standing. Washington urged blacks to join the work force in the south where they would be given a chance. In front of a predominantly white audience he asked that white southerners hired blacks because of their love for white people they serviced.
In the end, one plan is always going to be better when put into action, and in this case I believe that W.E.B. Dubois had the better plan. Both of these men set out to fix poverty and discrimination against blacks in America, but their strategies were radically different. Booker T. Washington felt that the only way to become equals in an unequal society is for blacks to work hard and become something. His idea was that if enough blacks were to become doctors, lawyers, businessman, and become successful in general that they could not be considered anything other than equal.
Lee concluded that slavery would help both white and black races grow equally. In the letter Lee also questions the motivations and morals of the founding fathers about what equality really meant to them. The letter seems to be ironic, reason being Robert E. Lee should be the biggest supporter of slavery for the South but seems to be torn on the issue (Fair Use
It all comes down to Nature vs. Nurture. In order for black men to be better and contribute more, they must first face the challenges that they have and then overcome them. 1. Think Black First, 100 Percent of the Time: Empowering each other in places of business and employment will help each other learn how to become better people and business leaders. 2.
That way too long have the black nation been “judged by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character (King 815)” and therefore it is time for them to rise and stand up for their rights. That it is time
Also, as a Civil Rights leader he must convince the enemy to stop hating blacks. A brave step in the opposite direction, Campbell visits “Klan County.” He writes,” I made the trip to what was being referred to by Peter Young as Klan County” (Campbell 246). Will was crazy to go visit Klansmen who he was fighting against. The change, however, did no harm. Campbell says, “I didn’t lie to them and they didn’t lie to me.
In 1876, Washington went to live back in West Virginia and he began teaching bible school classes at African Zion Baptist church. Washington’s determination to help improve the Negro population has had tremendous impact on many. “Cast down your bucket in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions,” says Washington to the Negros (Atlanta Compromise-Washington). He proposes that the Negros should get jobs from the northerners who have factories and not enough workers. “No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem,” claims Washington (Atlanta Compromise-Washington).
Kendal Hiatt Mrs. Hamilton AP Lang, 5th September 22, 2014 Analysis Essay (RD 2) Will Rogers once wrote, “We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” In a millennium where free men lacked full freedom, recognizing the rights of others holds importance when looking towards African Americans and their role in the Union. In his speech to his fellow African Americans, Alfred M. Green’s inspiring call to action is presented through the use of strategic organization, shifting tone, and powerful appeals implicating the necessity of their military service in the Union (parallelism). In the first section of the passage, Green addresses the dreary past that the African Americans, including himself,
Asked whether blacks preferred to live in communities of their own or "scattered among the whites," he replied: "I would prefer to live by ourselves, for there is a prejudice against us in the South that will take years to get over." (On this point alone, disagreement followed, for Lynch insisted it would be best for the races to live together; all the others, however, agreed with Frazier.) At the same time, Frazier affirmed the loyalty of African Americans, free and slave, to the federal government. "If the prayers that have gone up for the Union army could be read out," he added, "you would not get through them these two weeks." As for Sherman himself, Frazier remarked that blacks viewed him as a man "specially set apart by God" to "accomplish this work" of
Du Bois and Booker T. Washington have many conflicting views. For instance, they both believe that African Americans deserved egalitarianism, but Washington felt that the way to accomplish this goal would be through education. He felt that the establishment of Tuskegee Institute would allow African Americans to utilize education to infiltrate the work force and attain economic equality. Washington’s ideology advises Negroes to compromise by surrendering their civil rights, political rights and higher education for the Negro youth in exchange for a larger chance of economic development (p. 30). As a result, Du Bois says that Washington’s philosophy helped with the prematurely accomplished the disfranchisement of the Negro, the legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro, and the steady withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of Negro (p. 30).