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W.E.B. Du Bois Vs. Booker T. Washington Scott Suaso Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, both early advocates of the civil

rights movement, offered appropriate strategies to achieving solutions to the

discrimination experienced by black men and women in the nineteenth and

twentieth centuries. Despite having that in common, the two men had almost

completely polar approaches to that goal. Washington, a man condoning

economic efficiency had a more gradual approach as opposed to Du Bois, whose

course involved immediate and total equality both politically and economically.

For the time period, Washington overall offers a more effective and appropriate

proposition for the time whereas Du Bois's approach is precedent to movements

in the future. Both have equal influence over African Americans in politics, but

Washington always seemed to have the high card in white politics. Washington's

proposal excels in reference to education while Du Bois can be noted for achieving

true respect from white Americans.

Du Bois urged African Americans to involve themselves in politics. Gaining this power would

be essential to immediate beseeching of rights. Political association would prevent blacks from falling

behind because when the Negro found himself deprived of influence in politics, therefore, and at the

same time unprepared to participate in the higher functions in the industrial development which this

country began to undergo, it soon became evident to him that he was losing ground in the basic things

of life (Doc I). Du Bois also directly challenged Washington when he stated that the way for a people to

gain their reasonable rights is a not by voluntarily throwing them away and insisting that they do not

want them (Doc E). W.E.B. Du Bois goes on to criticize that that the principles of democratic

government are losing ground, and caste distinctions are growing in all directions (Doc F). All of these

political demands are comprehensible but Du Bois desired a radical change; Negroes must insist

continually, in season and out of season (Doc E). This is close to nagging, which was surely

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