Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were advocates for the civil rights movement. They offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination that black Americans faced during the late 1800s. Their strategies were different. Washington preferred a gradual incline of black involvement and acceptance, whereas DuBois preferred immediate direct action.
After the emancipation of slavery in the 1800’s, African Americans have struggled to be treated with the same equal rights as Europeans. Even with the laws that were pasted to protect African Americans there were states that ignored and created new laws to overturn the laws to protect African Americans. The ignorant of Europeans who denied African Americans the equal rights the laws stated they deserved. African Americans decided to stand up for themselves by developing non violent protest movement to fight for the equal rights of African Americans. ("Civil Rights Movement") Martin Luther King Jr. became the leader of the non violent protest movement in the 1950’s.The development of Martin Luther King Jr. in this era started when an African American woman named Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
African-American Literature 121 Response Paper #2 October 12, 2011 Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois I will show the different views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois on racial progress and education. Both men had great ideas about both but totally different views as to how they felt or seen a resolution to the problem of racial progress and education. Booker T. Washington and W.E. B. Dubois wanted freedom from oppression for African Americans, but their approach towards this goal would create a great deal of conflict between the two. Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in Franklin County, Virginia.
This was due to the fact that they shared in the general prejudice of their time and because of the fact that they considered other reforms (such as lower tariffs) to be more important that anti-lynching laws. African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey strongly disagreed with the opinions and actions of the Progressive era and took action on their own to alleviate poverty and discrimination. A former slave, Booker T. Washington proposed a response to discrimination that was widely accepted by both whites and African Americans in the hostile racial climate of the 1880s and 1890s. In 1881, Washington established the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
As far as Johnsons voting record while in congress on civil rights, he shared similar attitudes with the south towards civil rights for black people. Johnson had a strong desire to become one of the greatest domestic Presidents in the history of the U. S. He believed that the U. S. could not be considered as the Great Society if it denied civil rights to American Negroes. Johnson believed that he owed it to Kennedy’s life to push this act forward. The passive approach to civil rights in the 50’s had now gone and the Northern ghettos were now moving more towards militancy. Johnson realised that society had changed in a short space of time of just a few years; he wanted change before civil unrest forced through.
In the Southern states, African Americans were treated as chattel and in their views it was a necessity as it had existed for hundreds of years. The North and South established a vast different view on the political structure on how there states should be governed. Both the North and South wanted different political and economic values that were going to favour in their needs. The Southerners had their beliefs that the individual states had the right to nullify any law the Federal government had decided to pass. In particular, they also believed that individual states had the right to leave the United States and form their own independent country.
African Americans were segregated from the whites and also Women had no rights because Men were seen as the alpha male. The obstacles of the two would probably fit into the race and gender of how America was back in the twentieth century. African Americans were always hard to be put in society in the 1900’s because of slavery. Even though slavery had ended in the 1950’s, they were still not accepted into society. The northern parts of the United States accepted African Americans, and many try to escape to the north to try to get employed and leave the racial segregation in the south.
The Ideological State Apparatus at work in George Schuyler’s Black No More George Schuyler was a controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance. At a time when “race men” were glorifying a uniquely African American culture, Schuyler steadily purported the view that African Americans were primarily American, and did not differ from other immigrants. In his essay entitled “Negro-Art Hokum,” Schuyler writes: If the European immigrant after two or three generations of exposure to our schools, politics, advertising, moral crusades, and restaurants becomes indistinguishable from the mass of Americans of older stock…how much truer must it be of the sons of Ham who have been subjected to what the uplifters call Americanism for the last three hundred years. Aside from his color, which ranges from very dark brown to pink, your American Negro is just plain American. (37) Schuyler felt that by viewing Negro art as unique and separate, it helped to perpetuate myths of racial inferiority.
DBQ – WASHINGTON VS DUBOIS Booker T Washington and W.E.B DuBois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black Americans at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Although both men hoped to eventually achieve the same goals – social, political and economic equality for blacks – their proposed methods of achieving these aims were almost contradictory. Both helped blacks to make some strides, but perhaps the times called for a more united stand. Washington’s basic philosophy was to work within the system, and gain economic strength. He urged blacks to first achieve economic power through education in industrial areas, believing that with economic equality came the power to bring social and political freedoms as well.
Another major point he makes in this speech is that blacks need to learn to put brains and skills to their occupations of life instead of just labor to achieve higher standing and success. In the 2nd reading from W.E.B Dubois Critiques on Booker T. Washington, Dubois believes more so in the fact that the black man needs to work on their economic status to earn respect and rise above instead of Washington’s idea of developing friendships with the whites before economically advancing. Dubois also disagrees with Washington’s idea of these relationships before economic prosperity because he feels that it is too soon to develop these close relationships between the whites and the blacks since slavery has been abolished so recently. He only believes that developing a higher standard and economic lifestyle would allow openings for these