Black Nationalism

Black Nationalism

W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were the two dominant Black leaders of American history during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s. Both men had the same goals--eradicating racism, segregation, and discrimination against their race. However, the means to achieve such ends were vastly different; To start of W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23 1968 in Great Barrington. Du Bois was a well educated black man that got a degree from Fisk University in 1888; he later went to attend school at Harvard University. Du Bois was the co-founder of the NAACP in 1903.In addition, he argued that social change could be accomplished by developing the small group of college-educated blacks he called "the Talented Tenth:"

Du Bois believe that “Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass” . He said if we let the ten percent get a education that they would be the ones to lead us later down the line and take everything back from the criminals. Du Bois always said look back in the past it was only a few black men that led everything. He said that everyone can not lead. We Booker T. Washington believed different.

Booker T. Washington was born on April 5 1956 in Virginia. Washington preached a philosophy of self-help, racial solidarity and accommodation. He urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity. He believed in education in the crafts, industrial and farming skills and the cultivation of the virtues of patience, enterprise and thrift. This, he said, would win the respect of whites and lead to African Americans being fully accepted as citizens.

Both believe in two different ways of bringing up the black community, but little do they