Booker T Vs. Du Bois
Steps for Integration: Booker T vs. WEB Du Bois
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both had their own individual approaches for dealing with Black America’s poverty, discrimination, and segregation problems at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Their opposing strategies both greatly assisted their race through the times of struggle. They fought for the same thing, but had different ways of handling the situation in order to change the country at that time. Although WEB Du Bois’ strategy for immediate integration was a good one, I believe that Booker T Washington’s strategies of gradual integration and focusing on the black race as a whole were more appropriate for the time period of 1877-1915.
The school enrollment by race was much lower for blacks in the period when Washington and Du Bois made a great impact on the educational system. Beginning around 1905, there was an upward spike in Black schooled children which is credited to the efforts and influence from both Washington and Du Bois. …show more content…
Also, the amount of black lynchings became more and scarce as Tuskegee institute developed and blacks developed more skills (C). This is perceived by me in a number of ways. First off, black Americans were learning skills now by the way of Booker T’s methods, and were not only becoming smarter and more efficient but also becoming more important to other people around them especially white landowners. Their skills were needed by others, which not only gave people a reason not to lynch them, but it also introduced many whites to more black Americans. A person would much rather lynch someone that they did not know personally, rather than someone who works in their field gathering crops and tending their
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both had their own individual approaches for dealing with Black America’s poverty, discrimination, and segregation problems at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Their opposing strategies both greatly assisted their race through the times of struggle. They fought for the same thing, but had different ways of handling the situation in order to change the country at that time. Although WEB Du Bois’ strategy for immediate integration was a good one, I believe that Booker T Washington’s strategies of gradual integration and focusing on the black race as a whole were more appropriate for the time period of 1877-1915.
The school enrollment by race was much lower for blacks in the period when Washington and Du Bois made a great impact on the educational system. Beginning around 1905, there was an upward spike in Black schooled children which is credited to the efforts and influence from both Washington and Du Bois. …show more content…
Also, the amount of black lynchings became more and scarce as Tuskegee institute developed and blacks developed more skills (C). This is perceived by me in a number of ways. First off, black Americans were learning skills now by the way of Booker T’s methods, and were not only becoming smarter and more efficient but also becoming more important to other people around them especially white landowners. Their skills were needed by others, which not only gave people a reason not to lynch them, but it also introduced many whites to more black Americans. A person would much rather lynch someone that they did not know personally, rather than someone who works in their field gathering crops and tending their