Compare and contrast Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois views on how segregation should be handled.?

Answer 1

Booker T. Washington fought the segregationalist policies through this method: He urged African-Americans to prove themselves worthy of their rights by educating themselves and getting skills to make themselves useful to whites. He preached work first, then civil rights.
William Edward Burghardt(W.E.B.) DuBois urged African-Americans to realize that they are human beings and that they should demand the rights to vote, sit wherever they want and to live life as decently as the rest of the population.
Both leaders had profoundly different ways of approaching segregation. Washington viewed the issue as a matter of assimilation first, then civil rights. DuBois viewed segregation as a matter of entitlement. From my perspective, he saw African-Americans as American as anyone else and that African-Americans ought to be entitiled to the same rights as everyone else. At first this was his view. He would later go into Pan-Africanism.

Answer 2

This question has been asked a half dozen times just today, so I would refer you please, to some of my answers with others who have raised the same or similar questions.

The answer is, however, that Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, was an accomodationist and he believed that blacks should do the best they can where they are "put down your pail where you are" idea. He believed by being the best you can be, where you are, would allow the blacks to obtain the vote, without confrontation.

DuBois, one of the founders of the NAACP and the Niagara Movement believed that you had to take the 'talented tenth' of blacks and educate and train them to be politically astute and active. Political activity was the best way to get the vote.

Answer 3

Booker T was unfortunately an assimilationist while W.E.B was more for blacks fighting for their god given rights.