African American Thought in the Late 19th Century

African American Thought in the Late 19th Century

In the late 19th century, there were two men with different points of views on how to improve the status of African Americans. These two men were W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. They were two great leaders of the black community, but disagreed on strategies for black social and economic progress. With their different backgrounds and points of views, they should have worked together to improve African American status in the late 19th century. Their tactics alone could not have worked well. There would have been a problem or disagreement, because not all of the African Americans thought the same way they did. This essay will compare and contrast the different ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, and explain why their combined ideas would have been a better approach.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Virginia, but later moved to West Virginia after emancipation. He studied at the Hampton Institute and ...