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In five pages this paper discusses the important role this African American author and intellectual played in the civil rights movement, such contributions as positions, philosophy, and leadership. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder" (as cited in Rucker, 2002, p. 37).
Although many observers believed the objective of the civil rights movement was the creation of a "raceless society," Du Bois position was markedly different (Shuford, 2001, p. 301). Instead,
he maintained that the goal of civil rights should be the insistence upon social inclusion of and equal respect for all races. His role as a civil rights leader,
Du Bois believed, was not to encourage assimilation, but rather to celebrate diversity. He argued that blacks and whites would never be the same because their historical and cultural
experiences were vastly different. Du Bois contended that if blacks were expected to embrace white society and reject their own African cultural distinctions, they would be doing nothing more
than exchanging one type of slavery for another. Before W.E.B. Du Bois, civil rights had evolved primarily through the contributions of Booker T. Washington. Washington maintained that
education could serve as the great racial equalizer in the United States. His cautious and conservative views did not pose a threat to the early twentieth-century social mainstream.
Acceptance, however, does not initiate social change, and therefore the Jamaican Black Nationalist orator Marcus Garvey develops more radical approaches internationally. Du Bois, while praising Garveys honesty and sincerity,
was also wary of his influence upon the civil rights movement because of his "dictatorial" and "domineering" persona (Rucker, 2002, p. 38). In the area of civil rights, Du
Bois successfully bridged the gap between Washingtons intellectualism and the militancy of Marcus Garvey and Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. In his article "A Negro Nation Within the
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