In front of a predominantly white audience he asked that white southerners hired blacks because of their love for white people they serviced. Washington praised black loyalty and fidelity to whites. He claimed that blacks would be a great burden on society if they would continue to be oppressed. In my opinion the most important point in Washington’s speech was his position on economic prosperity as opposed to equality. Washington believed that blacks should have the opportunity to earn a living, but not necessarily be equal to blacks; he stated that blacks and whites should be “two different fingers on a hand”.
His story gave many African Americans hope. All could see that he rose out of the shadows of nothing so why couldn’t they do the same? All black men, women, and children came together to overcome one thing; racism. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were a significant peace to the puzzle because they had the power to unite people into one cause. Without these men’s ideas of non-violence retaliation the black race would not have been seen as the victim, instead the problem.
The failure of a common goal between African-American leaders did not help solve these issues, but it was not the main problem facing blacks and was not the most important factor preventing advancement of civil rights. Leaders like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B du Bois did have ideas about how to improve conditions for African Americans, but none of their ideas would have worked due to factors such as the lack of ambition from the Presidents during this period and how people in the South still were intolerant of blacks. The leadership towards equality was divided however, and at that time, it did make the idea of equality seem even more unreachable. The main example of division between the African-American leaders is with Booker T. Washington and W.E.B du Bois. They were both educated black men but came from very different social backgrounds.
Du Bois’ ethnicities included African American, French, Dutch, and Indian. W.E.B Du Bois was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1895. 3 Du Bois mainly stressed the idea of social and economical equality among the African-American community, which was very different from Washington’s view. He highly stated that the “talented tenth” theory should be given access to the mainstream American life.3 His “talented tenth” theory was first introduced in 1903 and mainly focused on helping the need for higher education to create leadership qualities to the most needed 10 percent of African-Americans.5 W.E.B Du Bois was also an important contributor to help co-found the National African American Colored People or NAACP and became the association's director of research and editor of its magazine, The Crisis.4 Overtime W.E.B Du Bois developed into a skilled historian , poet, and
Equality Opportunity’ in that the burdens of racism can only be overcome by taking race into account. Affirmative action also aims to reflect the racial diversity of the nation, the ‘Equality of Results’, within schools, the firm and the workplace. Despite being mainly supported by Democrats, and rejected by Republicans President Nixon played a significant role in affirmative action by instituting ‘set aside’ policies to reserve a certain percentage for minorities. The main advantage of affirmative action is that is leads to a greater diversity in societies main institutions, arguably this would not be achieved had things been left as they were. It is also argued on the basis of righting those previously wronged, by opening areas of education and employment that would not have previously been available to minorities.
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
He considered that economic security in this society for blacks was not enough and so they should be educated. Dubois took Booker T. Washington's ideas, elaborated them and took them a stride further. Booker T. Washington just wanted the blacks to have opportunities without equality. In contrary, W.E.D. Dubois wanted blacks to have opportunities as well as equality (BOOKS
He asks Richard what the co-workers had said and that they would be punished but Richard’s fear is too great and just accepts his pay and leaves. White supremacy is shown clearly in this instance where his co-workers feel that they had every right to scare a child and make him feel completely inferior. They did not want African Americans to feel like they had a voice, equality and certainly did not want blacks to feel as if they were someone of importance. The fact that Southern whites fear and discourage black migration to the North exposes the degree to which their pride and even their very economic welfare depends on the presence of blacks. Racism is a means to an end, as oppressors employ racist measures in order to achieve power over another group.
526). She tries to explain how the black males in the community develop based on the actions of white men which impair each of the three men she discusses in some way. She brings up the character Jude and explains that Jude is the character that has a lot of conflict towards white people. This is the result of him not earning the job at the railroad that he wanted because the more favorable “white males’ that were thin and strong were chosen over him. He wanted that job to prove his manhood, (which he only wanted to do because of his inferior position outside of the community).
Socrates did not take enough action while Malcom X may have wanted to take too much action which is why I have concluded that Dr. King is the best choice of the three. He did achieve his purpose of removing unjust laws and help black America gain equal rights by using his method of non-violent direct