Which view was more effective Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. Du Bois?

Answer 1

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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.

Washington's accomplished more, but DuBois' ideas are sure a lot more attractive.

Answer 3

If you are speaking statistically, it would have to be neither.

Until living conditions and civil rights were addressed by the government of this country, nothing really changed for African American people.

But really, both of them were "correct". The lives of African Americans were improved by both civil rights action (that DuBois advocated) and educational and economic opportunity (that Washington advocated).

They both had equal impact on the lives of black people.