Two great leaders of the black community in the late 19th century and 20th century, W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington both had varying views on how to solve the racial issues in America. Washington wanted black people to slowly be integrated into the white society to start at the bottom and gain their way to the top, while DuBois wanted the change to happen as soon as possible he wanted black people to have the rights that he believed they deserved from the very beginning. Booker T. Washington was an educator, reformer and one of the most influential people of his time. He preached a philosophy of self-help, racial solidarity, and accommodation. He urged black people to accept discrimination for the time being and elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity. He believed in education in the crafts, industrial and farming skills, and he believed this would win the respect of whites, and lead African Americans being fully accepted as citizens and integrated into all strata of society. Booker T. Washington idea of how to receive racial equality was a slow moving machine he wanted black people to work from the bottom and eventually once accepted by white people …show more content…
White people owned black people at one point and time and to just somehow over a short period of time after the civil war and after black people are set free is unrealistic. In order to receive change you need to speak out on the oppression that you receive, allowing yourself to be oppressed hoping that one day you will receive the same treatment as white people and be seen as equals won’t work. While DuBois idea for racial equality may be seen as a radical idea, but sometimes things need to be radical in order for people to realize them and decide to change