Deon Ramey (0363257) Professor K. Wilson Sociology 101-LS1 4 March 2014 W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghart Du Bois (W.E.B. Du Bois) was born February 23‚ 1869 in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts. Du Bois attended the Humboldt University of Berlin‚ Fisk University‚ Harvard College‚ and Harvard University. He was a civil rights activist‚ historian‚ and sociologist who published books from 1896 to 1903 “Du Bois also wrote two novels‚ The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) and Dark Princess:
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Booker T. Washington was born a slave and was nine years old when slavery ended. When booker T. Washington was older he created the Tuskegee institute in Alabama. He was the principal their and he taught blacks about the industry and industrial skills. He was a politician and also a good public speaker‚ he was able to get whites and blacks to donate to his school. Booker T. Washington was a better and stronger advocated for rights of African Americans than W.E.B. Dubois was because Washington wasn’t
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dramatic shift. Not only was race-based discrimination the Consensus theory among whites‚ it was also legally enforced. Institutionalized racism left African Americans without citizenship‚ voting rights‚ civil liberties‚ and access to higher education. It also left them without justice‚ due process‚ and protection. Even though the ownership of humans had been eradicated by the 13th Amendment in 1865‚ the black community was in no way truly free; racial violence and black-oppression were as high as ever
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guarantee rights to African Americans. Despite all the changes occurring in the country‚ African Americans were still not considered equal to the Caucasian Americans. For example‚ the KKK and the black codes are just a few methods of how the Caucasoid race continued to suppress the African Americans. Eventually‚ two influential leaders emerge in the battle to advance the African American race. Their names were Booker T. Washington and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. Although‚ they were fighting
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Booker T. Washington uses the metaphor of the fingers and the hand to alleviate the pressures felt by both whites and blacks. Whites did not want to feel forced into interaction while a lot of blacks would have probably felt resentment towards having to interact with whites. In the passage preceding this declaration‚ he states‚ "we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach interlacing our industrial‚ commercial‚ civil and religious life with yours in a way that shall make
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you were brought up also defines you as a person. It forms the way you view things‚ handle or approach certain situations. W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington were raised completely different ways. Some may even go as far to say that they are polar opposites. That is why their approach on getting equality for African Americans are completely different. I agree with both of their approaches for many reasons but I also disagree with points on each argument as well. On one side Dubois never grew
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Of the Coming of John” from The Souls of Black Folk. (1903) In “Of the Coming of John from‚ The Souls of Black Folk”‚ by W. E. B. Du Bois’s he talks about the years immediately following the civil war. How black people have a since of double consciousness which means that they are always looking at their selves through the eyes of other people. The story talked about the failures and accomplishments of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s role in Reconstruction. W. E. B. Du Bois’s talks
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W.E.B. Du Bois spent most of his career focusing on race relations and he defined the problem of the color line. For most of his life he believed in integration‚ but towards the end of his life he began to focus on Black Nationalism after he became discouraged with the lack of progress in race relations (Allan‚ 2013). Du Bois was an author‚ a poet‚ civil-rights activist‚ Pan-Africanist‚ a sociologist‚ and he was known for many other trades that he spent his time doing throughout his life. He graduated
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Booker T Washington and W.E.B Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black Americans at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. By using my knowledge of the documents and my knowledge of the period 1877-1915‚ I was able to asses the appropriateness of each of the strategies in the historical context in which it was developed. I came to the conclusion that Booker T Washington’s strategy was more appropriate for
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Herndon became the first black millionaire. Today his home is a national landmark. Was one of the founding members of the Negro business League‚ He also contributed to the Niagara movement. Helped fund Atlanta University. John hope was an important African American educator and race leader of the early 1900’s. In 1906 he became the first black president of Morehouse college (which was the same that Martin Luther King Jr. was born.) he also 23 years later became first African American president of Atlanta
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