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A 3 page essay that discusses the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, two of the most renowned leaders of Black Americans in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, on education for Black Americans. Washington emphasized general education and vocational/industrial studies and Du Bois favored having higher education being made more accessible to the Black intellectual elite, a group whom he referred to as “Talented Tenth.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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leaders differed markedly in their stances toward education for Black Americans, with Washington emphasizing general education and vocational/industrial studies and Du Bois favored having higher education being made more accessible
to the Black intellectual elite, a group whom he referred to as "Talented Tenth" (Du Bois Ch.6 P.25). Each man makes a persuasive argument for his position in his writing,
Washington in his autobiography Up From Slavery (1901) and Du Bois in his text The Souls of Black Folk (1903). Examination of these two arguments within the historical context of
the era suggests that their differences evolve from the vastly different backgrounds, which resulted in vastly different worldviews. While Du Bois was the first African American to earn a
Ph.D. from Harvard, Washington, who was born a slave, had to struggle to obtain his education. Du Bois acknowledges that Washington rose to national prominence as a Black leader during
a very difficult period, a time when the "nation was a little ashamed of having bestowed so much sentiment on Negroes" (Du Bois Ch.3 P.1). This statements alludes to the
rampant racism that characterizes the post-civil war era, which, after initial gains during the Reconstruction, devolved into a era of intense racial persecution. Due to the timbre of the
times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to them, but rather a resource. Rather than oppose making
education available to Blacks, in a famous speech given at the Atlanta Exposition, Washington urged both races to "Cast down your bucket among" the Black people (Washington 221). By this,
Washington meant that the South could not achieve progress without the work and cooperation of its Black citizens. Furthermore, Washington pacified white anxieties by asserting that "In all things that
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