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This 6 page paper discusses the claim that "all men are created equal" and what W.E.B. DuBois, Emma Goldman and Eugene V. Debs would have to say about this claim. All three fought against the injustices in American society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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future generations to make the words "all men are created equal" come true. This paper considers W.E.B. DuBois, Eugene Debs, and Emma Goldman, and how they would say that America
has failed to meet Lincolns challenge, and which of them is most compelling. Discussion DuBois, Debs and Goldman can be seen as representing, in broad terms, three different perspectives: DuBois
fought for African-American rights; Debs for workers rights and Goldman for social equality, though this isnt strictly accurate; Debs for instance was also a strong supporter of womens rights. However,
by looking at them with regard to the causes they were closest to, we can see that America has failed to live up to its promises to almost every group.
William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) DuBois is one of the most outspoken political activists in American history, and his approach toward winning equal rights is often contrasted with that of Booker
T. Washington who advocated a "conciliatory posture of accommodating racial discrimination" (Woodard). DuBois, who enjoyed a upbringing in Great Barrington, Massachusetts that sheltered him in large part from the realities
of segregation, nevertheless understood that the freedom he enjoyed as part of a progressive town was not extended to all African Americans (Woodard). In the early years of the 20th
century, then, DuBois committed himself to encouraging blacks to understand that in order to survive the "inordinate stress and cruelty of racial discrimination" they had to make a "...determined attempt
at self-development, self-realization, in spite of environing discouragement and prejudice" (Woodard). DuBois urged African Americans to obtain their civil rights in America "through militant protest and agitation" (Woodard). DuBois "call
to arms" couldnt have come at a worse time, because America had just turned its back decisively on its black citizens, with the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, which said that
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