In 1903 W.E.B Dubois was one of the greatest African American leader who aspired to better the quality of black lives. W.E.B Dubois wanted all African Americans to become book smart because he thought that was the only blacks could succeed in life. W.E.B Dubois believed that African Americans should be able to read, write. W.E.B Dubois also thought that African Americans should be entitled to organized education. With both literacy and organized education, W.E.B Dubois thought it would result in higher IQ’s in African Americans. W.E.B Dubois believed that if African Americans were more intelligent that they would more comparable to the whites. All of this was called W.E.B Dubois gradualist political strategy. Unlike Booker T. Washington, W.E.B …show more content…
Washington, W.E.B Dubois wanted a higher education for African Americans rather than an industrial education. W.E.B Dubois saw that industrial education was only there to satisfy the whites. W.E.B Dubois also saw that industrial education meant accepting social inferiority, instead of social equality. W.E.B Dubois wanted African Americans to be treated equally in society and only saw one way out of it, higher education. By higher education W.E.B Dubois meant for African Americans to further their knowledge in both reading and writing and become literate. But W.E.B Dubois knew that this wasn’t possible with an organized structured education system. With a structured education system, the Negro youth would become literate with ease. W.E.B Dubois knew that with higher education for African Americans would acknowledge Negroes and only when they were just as smart as the whites was when they should be respected as equals. Unlike Booker T. Washington where he saw that African Americans should accept social inequality, and have just the right for opportunities, W.E.B Dubois sought out higher education, opportunity and most importantly social …show more content…
W.E.B Dubois wanted political equality for all African Americans. With a higher education W.E.B Dubois thought African Americans wouldn’t be denied the right to vote. W.E.B Dubois thought that the greatest social equality was political opinion. W.E.B Dubois wanted African Americans to have a say in who their leader would be in society. W.E.B Dubois contradicted Booker T. Washington when it came to choosing great leaders and referred to abolition movements led by Nell, Redmond, and Douglass. W.E.B Dubois then referred to the leaders that followed Elliot, Bruce, and Langston who served as Reconstruction politicians. W.E.B Dubois that if African Americans had the right to choose a great leader many more great leaders would follow. Unlike Booker T. Washington where he just wanted African Americans to be suppressed and have no say about the leaders that ran their society, W.E.B Dubois wanted all African Americans to learn how to choose a great leader in a society where there was unequal political