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HIST2112-Assignment 2


In the early years of the twentieth century, two African American leaders, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois, were searching for methods to solve the injustices that faced African Americans. Both Washington and Dubois were seeking the same outcome for Blacks, first-class citizenship, but their methods for obtaining these rights were dramatically different. Washington believed that African American self-sufficiency through industrial education and accommodation to white oppression would gradually lead to equal rights and privileges. Dubois emphasized political action and higher liberal arts education as a means to first-class citizenship.

Booker T. Washington emerged after the abolition of slavery in America. This was a time when African Americans were faced with social, political and economic injustices. During his 1895, Atlanta Exposition Address, Washington proposed his vision for African Americans to become self-sufficient and gain the......

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