03.15.06
UIS Spring, 2006 - Understanding US History
A Difference in Ideologies – Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois Seek the Answer to Race Equality in Their Time (6 page paper)
Washington’s main critics, DuBois among them felt that Washington was not preaching a path to equality but, rather, a path of “go along to get along.” Of compromising on complete freedom from prejudice in order to keep the peace. Washington believed taking the path of least resistance would lead to the eventual full freedom and recognition of blacks by both the white South and North.
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DuBois spent his life fighting for civil and political rights for all black people around the globe.
In a nutshell, these quotes offer a simple view of the differences between Washington and DuBois. Both were right and both were wrong, their influence reverberates through society still. (DuBois was a founding member of the NAACP)
Sources
Specific to this paper:
Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915
Race Matters - Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others by W.E.B. DuBois
A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. DuBois by Gerald C. Hynes
Review of Mark Perry, Lift up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders
African-American Perspectives – Biography – Kelly Miller
Cornel West
W.E.B. DuBois:
W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center
Wikipedia: W.E.B. DuBois
Project Gutenberg: W.E.B. DuBois
FBI File on W.E.B. DuBois (pdf)
WikiSource: W.E.B. DuBois (online works by or about DuBois)
W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research @ Harvard
Basic Searches
Google: W.E.B. DuBois
Google Books: W.E.B. DuBois
Links for Booker T. Washington can be found in this Breathing History post.