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A 4 page research paper that discusses the lives of William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, who were both leaders of African Americans in the early part of the twentieth century. Both men were distinguished educators. But their philosophies concerning black advancement and their backgrounds were very different. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. Washington struggled to achieve his education. The differences in their background gives insight into why they disagreed on how the nature of racism in America should be addressed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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century. Both men were distinguished educators. But their philosophies concerning black advancement and their backgrounds were very different. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from
Harvard. Washington struggled to achieve his education. The differences in their background gives insight into why they disagreed on how the nature of racism in America should be addressed.
Washington was born to slavery in Hales Ford, Virginia sometime around April 5, 1856 ("Booker Taliafero Washington"). After the Civil War, his family, while free, was extremely poor and Washington
worked began work in "salt furnaces and coal mines" from the age of nine, but he yearned for an education ("Booker Taliafero Washington"). His parents allowed him to quit work
at 16 in order to pursue an education. Washington walked 200 miles so that he could enroll in the Hampton Institute in Virginia, where he worked as a janitor in
order to pay his tuition. After graduation, he taught in various locations, but then opened the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, where he promoted education, and particularly
vocational education, as a means for African Americans to achievement advancement in American mainstream society. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He graduated
from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of Berlin and when he returned to the US entered Harvard, where
he received his doctorate (Wager). Du Bois quickly became noted for his academic scholarship, but, like Washington, he also became involved in promoting black advancement and political activism. In his
text The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois addressed the differences between his approach to the racism versus the approach advocated by Washington. Du Bois writes that Washington came
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