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
Du Bois believed that in order for people to work and make progress they need to have basic rights. He believed Blacks could not be deprived of education, the right to vote, and other civic rights (Document E). Du Bois also helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which was a civil rights organization to oppose segregation and racial discrimination. It fought the long opposed concept of “separate but equal” determined in Plessy vs. Fergusson. One of the reasons the NAACP was established was
The civil rights movement in America was a time in which Blacks and other minorities started actively demonstrating that they were equal to the white people in this country and it was their rights as human beings to have more independence and more equal rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a major figure in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. This leader had different ideas on what he thought would be the best way for blacks to get equality. King proclaimed a nonviolent, noncompliant philosophy similar to that of Gandhi in the achievement of Indian independence from the British earlier in the century. He also believed that blacks should try to find similarities between them and the white community.
Even though African Americans have shown that they can do what Caucasian Americans can do there is still De Jure segregation in the south which is commonly known as the Jim Crow law. The Jim Crow law states that black and white people should be segregated, but the facilities should be of the same standard; ‘separate, but equal’ although many of the facilities given to African Americans were usually nowhere near as luxurious as the Caucasian’s facilities. In 1954, the Brown vs Board or education case overturned the Plessy Vs Ferguson case which stated that public schools should be separated. This is a huge improvement to the status of American
In social scope he had a big influence on opinions and life discernment of black population disseminating philosophies of equivalence and skillful labor. Washington accepted a distinct and unequal life for black people, but acknowledged black power, self-empowerment, and common
The Road to Civil Rights Jene’ Patterson HIS204: American History Since 1865 Lisa Burgin January 20, 2012 Over decades African Americans fought to attain equality and civil rights. With a given history of being segregated from other races, discriminated against because of their race, and being isolated, African Americans have indeed made many efforts in establishing equality and gaining civil rights. This paper will discuss the efforts made by African Americans to end segregation, discrimination, and isolation to attain equal and civil rights. The fight for equality and civil rights for the African American race is one that has taken place over many decades. African American’s endured segregation and discrimination in different forms
The South felt that Lincoln should not do slavery and take away their economy or their way of life. The South also felt that each state had the right to vote on any law. African Americans wanted to be treated fair. One reason why they wanted to be treated fair is because they did not want to be slaves anymore. But the most important reason was because African American wanted to have the right to vote.
DuBois, describing the ideas of B.T.Washington, doesn’t see the reality, because he believes that the problem of accepting African Americans by the society is a problem of the whole nation, and that the whole nation should make an effort for equality. His main idea is that accepting African Americans in the socity as citizens with civil rights is a business of both sides: those who accept and those who are being accepted: “On the whole the distinct impression left by Mr Washington’s propaganda is that his future depends on his own efforts“. W.E.B. DuBois critisizes Washington, but he doesn’t count the fact that not all the social groups can realize that African Americans are not submitted anymore and that they have full civil rights now. While Mr Washington tells thst the success of African Americans depends on their own efforts, W.E.B.
Malcolm expressed another feeling and angle that was not uncommon in the African American community during this time, frustration, anger, and fear (Tyner 2004). It is also important to remember that King and Malcolm X had very different upbringings. They both wanted a better life for African Americans they just had a different way of looking at
The nonviolent struggle was promoted before but was not taken seriously. Booker T. Washington realized that blacks should elevate themselves in education and start their economic strength instead of militant actions that was promoted at that time. Economic power and education could affect the long struggle for freedom where the armed struggle could only make it worse. His attitude was obvious in his famous saying "cast down your bucket where you are. "(Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895) Casting down the bucket used to maintain stability and planting the roots which make them stronger in facing white supremacy.