Washington and Dubois
https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/
pp. 332-367 in the book – link should take you directly to required pages for today’s class
In a fully developed paragraph, explain the differences between approaches to race issues taken by Washington and Dubois. Given what you know of their biographies from today’s reading, why do you think each writer has decided upon his approach to racial equality?
Note: do not use outside sources
Requirements: fully developed paragraph
Answer preview
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois have clashing ideologies regarding African Americans’ racial issues. Washington was an influential activist and African American author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He emphasized that African Americans would only overcome the race issues by becoming economically independent. Washington believed that Blacks needed to get trained in agricultural practices and industrial labor as well as engage in practical work skills to become successful in the progressing Industrial Revolution (Berke et al., 2015). He supported the established rules that minority groups were separate but equal because he considered that the accomplishments from the acquired training strengthened Blacks’ self-
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