Booker T. Wahongton
Booker t. Washington and w.e.b Dubois was two of the most influential black people ever who had complety different view points that people agreed with and some disagreed with but who had the better one.
Booker t. program of industrial education, conciliation of the South, and submission and silence as to civil and political rights, was not original the Free Negroes from 1830 up to wartime had striven to build industrial schools, and the American Missionary Association had from the first taught various trades.
It startled the nation to hear a Negro advocating such a program after many decades of bitter complaint, it startled and won the applause of the South, it interested and won the admiration of the North, and after a confused murmur of protest, it silenced if it did not convert the Negroes themselves.
To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements comprising the white South was booker t. first task, at the time Tuskegee was founded it seemed, for a black man, nearly impossible. But ten years later. That Atlanta Compromise is the most notable thing in booker t. career. The South interpreted it in different ways, the radicals received it as a complete surrender of the demand for civil and political equality, the conservatives, as a generously conceived working basis for mutual understanding, So they both approved it.
Booker t. represents the old attitude of adjustment and submission, but adjustment at such a unusual time as to make his program unique. This is an age of unusual economic development, and Mr. Washington’s program naturally takes an economic cast, becoming a gospel of Work and Money to such an extent as apparently almost completely to overshadow the higher aims of life.
But Dubois had a different strategy it was not to refute the class based racial discourse itself but to dislocate the relations between race and class by arguing that racism was wrong because not race but class qualifies a person for citizenship.
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