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19 maj 2022 · This chapter offers a critical exploration of the historic debate between W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington and the ways it enriched and expanded African American social, political, and educational thought.
6 lip 2023 · Though Washington and Du Bois were born in the same era, both highly accomplished scholars and committed to the cause of civil rights for Black people in America, it was their differences in ...
25 lip 2024 · Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois are two of the African-American rights movement’s towering figures. Both known as educators and public intellectuals, the two held differing opinions about the path that the movement should take, thus, deeply dividing the African-American population.
The most influential public critique of Booker T. Washington’s policy of racial accommodation and gradualism came in 1903 when black leader and intellectual W.E.B. DuBois published an essay in his collection The Souls of Black Folk with the title “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.”
Booker T. Washington, left, and W.E.B. Du Bois, right, were two intellectual Black Americans who had differing aspirations for their people in the early 20th Century. (AFRO Archive...
W.E.B. DuBois, a leading black intellectual and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), agitated against discrimination and authored several noteworthy pieces on the black experience in the United States.
In the interview, Du Bois discusses Booker T., looks back on his controversial break with him and explains how their backgrounds accounted for their opposing views on strategies for black...
