When we look back at the turn of the 20th century, two male African-American leaders stand out: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and both had very different ideas about how to go about achieving racial progress. Washington, often called an accomodationist or a gradualist, was willing to forego "full citizenship rights" and integration for the time being in exchange for education and jobs for African Americans. DuBois criticized this position and demanded "the full rights of citizenship" for African Americans right away, including an end to JIm Crow segregation and the right to vote. Both men came from very different backgrounds. Booker T. Washington was born a slave in the South, and W.E.B. DuBois, being a Harvard-educated northerner, had a relatively elite background. Taking their origins into account, and basing your analysis on the readings and videos related to this controversy, analyze how these two men may have arrived at these differing positions on obtaining racial progress.
When we look back at the turn of the 20th century, two male African-American leaders stand out: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and both had very different ideas about how to go about achieving racial progress. Washington, often called an accomodationist or a gradualist, was willing to forego "full citizenship rights" and integration for the time being in exchange for education and jobs for African Americans. DuBois criticized this position and demanded "the full rights of citizenship" for African Americans right away, including an end to JIm Crow segregation and the right to vote.
Both men came from very different backgrounds. Booker T. Washington was born a slave in the South, and W.E.B. DuBois, being a Harvard-educated northerner, had a relatively elite background. Taking their origins into account, and basing your analysis on the readings and videos related to this controversy, analyze how these two men may have arrived at these differing positions on obtaining racial progress.
Slavery was a significant issue and tipping point in American politics and history. One of the reasons for the American Civil War was an attempt by the Union to prevent the expansion of slaves states to a majority position in the American confederation.
An important moment during the American Civil War occurred on 1st January 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation. This executive order officially gave African Americans in the slave states their freedom and even allowed for them to join the Union War effort.
Freedom at this point was just a change in the status of the slave. But what freedom meant in terms of social and economic life was something that was worked out over the next few decades. The southerner Booker T. Washington and the Northerner W.E.B. DuBois were two significant individuals who visualized the direction that the freedom of the African American should take in the post reconstruction era.
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