With the many differences 2 African American men, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois, had during the 19th and 20th centuries, these 2 men still managed to have different approaches to the nations decisions, because of and regarding to racism and segregation of African Americans in America. Booker T. Washington was about accepting current discrimination and slowly build up economically. W.E.B Dubois was being more aggressive for african american’s rights. These men both had different ways of spreading their opinion, with W.E.B Dubois taking on a more aggressive approach, while Booker T. Washington had more of a passive …show more content…
If you plan on getting through about anything, you have to see its difficulties as well as its enlightenments. It would kind of be like if you wrote your poem on a field of grass, you’re writing it on something that has been kept with hard work, like your poem. Not, saying one is greater than the other. This led the southerners having the Atlanta Compromise speech. The speech, taking place at the cotton states and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. This speech, became one of the most important speeches for African American’s rights in American history. Native American’s could not speak up against oppression because they weren’t allowed into politics or weren’t even allowed to say their opinion. The speech was presented on september 18, 1895, in front of a mainly white audience. The organizers of the exposition decided that having a black speaker would impress northerner visitors with evidence of racism in the south. They wanted to show how slavery was affecting these people and looking to see how this would …show more content…
Washington and W.E.B Dubois, we wouldn't have gotten the help we needed to be in this position that we are today. They fought together and apart for reasons that we take for granted today. This includes Education for all races and voting rights for African Americans. Even though they share two different opinions for a solution to the same problem, Dubois had been aggressive through his time fighting for rights and Washington, being a more passive approach and trying or take it slow. These men both included different ways but ended up succeeding with the same goal. These things, if not fought for, we wouldn't have today, so always be thankful. Just remember what Booker T. Washington said, “Cast down your bucket where you are. Cast it down, making friends in every manly way of the people of all races, by whom you are surrounded (Washington