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This 8 page paper discusses Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and the conditions at the time of the debate between the two men; it argues that given the prevalent conditions, it might have been better for black leaders to follow Washington's conciliatory model, rather than DuBois's call for political activism. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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where it appears that things could have taken a different turn, and that was around the turn of the 20th century, when Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois engaged in
a debate about the future of black America. This paper discusses the conditions at the time, which position is most conceptually consistent, and which position best accounts for the conditions
of the day. The Men Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Virginia in 1856. He was a founder and principal of Tuskegee Institute, and became a proponent of
"the doctrine of economic advancement combined with acceptance of disenfranchisement and conciliation with the white South" (Gibson). Washington came to the notice of the public in 1895 when he gave
a speech "before an integrated audience at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atlanta in September, 1985. He was the first Negro ever to address
such a large group of southern whites" (Gibson). This is the address for which Washington is remembered; it is referred to as the "Atlanta Compromise" (Gibson). In it, Washington "called
on white America to provide jobs and industrial-agricultural education for Negroes. In exchange, blacks would give up demands for social equality and civil rights" (Gibson). Washingtons message to blacks was,
in effect, that "political and social equality were less important as immediate goals than economic respectability and independence" (Gibson). Washington believed that if blacks became economically successful and self-sufficient, civil
rights and social equality would follow as a matter of course (Gibson). Washingtons philosophy was "one of accommodation to white oppression. He advised blacks to trust the paternalism of
the southern whites and accept the fact of white supremacy" (Gibson). He believed that blacks and whites were mutually interdependent but should remain socially separate (Gibson). He believed that
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