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Booker Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
The equality concerns Americans face in the workplace today can be traced back to the end of slavery and the way in which legislators in the South handled the integration of the black population into society as employees rather than slaves. It is therefore interesting to examine documents from the era after the civil war in order to gain insight into the thinking of the general population and of leaders at the time. Hence, when considering W.E.B. Du Bois' "Talented Truth" and Washington T. Booker's speech known as the "Atlanta Compromise," it becomes clear that these intellectuals had different approaches and ideals when it came to the improvement of the world for African-Americans at the time, with Du Bois' idealist viewpoint calling for appropriate leadership education while the more realistic Booker focused on how the black and white population could live under a compromise that would be acceptable for both.
Is idealist W.E.B. Du Bois called for the intellectual development of the most academically...
In order to develop the black population and its ability to become truly equal to the white population, De Bois suggests that education needs to be set up in such a way that leadership capacity is developed, along with the already existing focus on skills and training. The author notes that the latter are important, but not to the exclusion of the former, and that both menial and leadership training should be available to both black and white children (Du Bois, par. 12).
The reason for Du Bois' focus on leadership is his concern, like that of many other black intellectuals at the time, that the lack of good leadership training for black people in the United States would starve the ability of the black nation to elevate itself above perpetual servitude. Indeed, the lack of appropriate education for the cream of black…
References
DuBois, W.E.B. (1903). The Talented Tenth. Retrieved from: http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1148.htm
Wasthington, Booker T. (1985). Atlanta Compromise. Modern History Sourcebook. Retrieved from: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1895washington-atlanta.asp
WEB Du Bois The contrast between the thought of WEB Du Bois and that of his predecessor Booker T. Washington is readily apparent in the titles of the best-known works by the two men. Washington's thinking is laid out in his book Up From Slavery, and the title indicates not only an autobiography, but one which is unapologetic in the credence it lends to the typical American capitalist narrative of "rising"
WEB DuBois Outline of Critique of W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk Collective Nature of the Work Black Spirituals as Thematic Introductions Black Spirituals as conveyors of historical record Black Spirituals as oral tradition Truth Telling Assassination of Booker T. Washington and others who agree with him Capitulation to society as it is, rather than the way it should be for blacks DuBois, is one of the greatest African-American thinkers, oraters and writers of history. His works are
It was in 1919, when Dubois represented the NAACP at the Paris Peace Conference that he decided on organizing a Pan-African conference, aimed at bringing Africa and Africa's problems to the knowledge of the entire world. Although the conference eventually was not organized, mainly because Dubois failed to coagulate sufficient participants and other African- American organizations, it reflected Dubois Pan-Africanism and the idea of double conscious. Indeed, Dubois promoted and sustained
Washington was founder and principal of Tuskegee Institute, a normal and industrial school in Alabama. Washington is remembered chiefly for the Atlanta Compromise address. In this speech, he called on white America to provide jobs and industrial-agricultural education for Negroes. In exchange, blacks would give up demands for social equality and civil rights. His message to the Negro was that political and social equality were less important as immediate
Works Cited Aptheker, a. (Ed.)the Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906-1960 by W.E.B. DuBois. Amherst, Massachusetts: The University of Amherst Press, 1973, Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech." Retrieved April 27, 2005, at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/. Du Bois, W.E.B. From the Souls of Black Folk. In the Harper American Literature, Vol. 2, 2nd Ed. Donald McQuade et al. (Eds.). New York: Longman, 1993. 783-803. Du Bois, W.E.B. "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and
He wanted the Black people to "cast their buckets where they are." (Parish) The Atlanta Compromise was significant because it made Washington extremely well-known and well-liked among Whites and it helped him in getting a lot of money for his establishment, Tuskegee Institute. It was also imperative because there were other African-Americans who were being aggressive in challenging White supremacy and teaching Black and White people diverse thoughts about