Comparing In 1885 Web Dubois And Booker Washington

There are many great human beings in the world. Most of these beings helped us, as in all of society, get through some of the most unbearable events. In many cases there were a lot of racism, segregation, violence, and tragic losses. the Civil Rights activist were strong courageous men and women who stood up for African American rights that weren't given to them the easy way. These very brave men an women put their lives, careers, everything the had on the line for our generation to be how it is now. Some of the main problems they had were segregation among living arrangements and education. Web Du Bois and Booker Washington are two activist who grew up with these similar problems. Although one was semi more fortunate than the other, their
Moving to Nashville was when he got the taste of racism and the Jim Crow Laws for the first time. Living in Nashville he saw how bad people were being treated just because their skin color. This really shaped Dubois's feeling and ideas on the world and took actions in his own hands. At Fiske College, Web Du Bois got his bachelors degree then transferred to Harvard University. To pay his way through college he had loans from friends, scholarships, and plenty of jobs during the summer. Du Bois was one of the few students from Harvard to be selected for a study-abroad program in German at the University of Berlin. While attending this university he researched and learned so much about civil perspectives that he used through out the rest of his life as an activist. In Du Bois was the first African American to get his PH.D from Harvard. Then he enrolled as a doctoral student at Humboldt University; he was later awarded a doctoral degree in
Washington was born a slave in 1856. His mother was a cook for a plantation and his father was a white man that lived near the plantation they were on. Washington and his mother lived in the plantation kitchen where his mother did all of the cooking. Instead of going to school like every other child in his time era, Washington couldn't because he was a slave and during this time it was illegal to teach slave children academically. Therefore, Booker T. had to work at his plantation owner mill, lifting about 100-pound sacks all day everyday and get beaten if he doesn’t do the job right for the bosses satisfaction. At the age of nine his mother married a freedman and moved to West Virginia. His family still didn't have enough money so he had to work with his stepdad. HIs mother saw that he was into learning so she bought him an alphabet book and before work every morning he would get up and teach himself how to read and write. Washington got job a houseboy for a wife of a coal miner. She helped further his education by letting him go to school for an hour a day during the