After reading both texts and learning about both of these great leaders you can see many contrasting ideas on how to achieve similar things. Booker T. Washington wanted to sort of wait for rights and accept some of the discrimination that was being targeted at the African American’s. He wanted them to work on themselves and make their selves better through hard work. In his mind this meant farming and industrial education which in his eyes would in a way gain some sort of respect from the other race. W.E.B Dubois on the other hand disagreed with Booker. T Washington on the ways to obtain it. He said giving up trying to get rights was not the way to go. He said and I quote " they are absolutely certain that the way for a people to gain their
