Booker T Washington Speech Analysis
Booker T. Washington, an African-American former slave live in the South. He educated himself, and he was the leader of Tuskessee Institutes. On September 18, 1895, he made a speech at the cotton states and international exposition in Atlanta. His speech responded to the social and economic condition of the racial tensions. In his speech, he used a story to explain his points, “Cast down your bucket”. He not only told the white people to “cast down your bucket,” but also to the back people. “In all things that are purely social we can be separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”(Washington). He requested the whites to trust the blacks and give them the opportunity to prove their loyalty. He tried
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D from Harvard University, who was a professor at Atlanta University. His name is W.E.B. Du Bois. He disagreed with Booker T. Washington about what he request the blacks not fight for their civil right. He said, “The Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly ask that black people give up, at least for the present…” he argued that Mr. Washington tried to convince the blacks should take whatever opportunities they give to them and stop fight for power, right and education. “Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to modern manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism, and that black boys need education as well as white boys.”(Du Bois) He strongly request the young blacks go to school as same as whites, the adults need to fight for their equality, and they should agitate for the rights to vote.
In conclusion, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois had many different points of view on racial equality, but those points about the Blacks are both important in American history. Booker T. Washington’s points are more realism, and W.E.B. Du Bois are more idealism. Mr. Washington felt at that time the society won’t accept any slave to white-collar, so he asked the whites give blacks the opportunities to be blue-collar. However, Mr. Du Bois felt why to wait for the whites to accept them, and they should fight for themselves. But anyway they both wanted racial
D from Harvard University, who was a professor at Atlanta University. His name is W.E.B. Du Bois. He disagreed with Booker T. Washington about what he request the blacks not fight for their civil right. He said, “The Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly ask that black people give up, at least for the present…” he argued that Mr. Washington tried to convince the blacks should take whatever opportunities they give to them and stop fight for power, right and education. “Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to modern manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism, and that black boys need education as well as white boys.”(Du Bois) He strongly request the young blacks go to school as same as whites, the adults need to fight for their equality, and they should agitate for the rights to vote.
In conclusion, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois had many different points of view on racial equality, but those points about the Blacks are both important in American history. Booker T. Washington’s points are more realism, and W.E.B. Du Bois are more idealism. Mr. Washington felt at that time the society won’t accept any slave to white-collar, so he asked the whites give blacks the opportunities to be blue-collar. However, Mr. Du Bois felt why to wait for the whites to accept them, and they should fight for themselves. But anyway they both wanted racial