Booker T Washington Segregation

This video portrays the struggles African Americans encountered with segregation between blacks and whites during the Jim Crow era in the Twentieth Century. The leaders Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey wanted equality with the blacks. Booker T. Washington argues that the political rights for the African Americans could only be won through economic strength and self-sufficiency. W.E.B Du Bois encouraged talented artists to leave the south. Marcus Garvey. The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million Africans to the North, Midwest, and West.
The Great Migration occurred because the blacks were driven away from their home due to the lack of economic opportunities in the South. In addition they were escaping the oppressive

Washington was born a slave himself and believed that the African Americans should resist the sorrow songs of the North and stay right where they were in the South. In fact if the blacks wanted to leave, they actually wouldn’t be able to until they fulfilled the requirement of mutual cooperation. They shared common role between the blacks and whites in the creation of the New South between former slaves and masters. In the book Black Voices An Anthology of African-American Literature Abraham Chapman states that, “What had happened was that Booker Washington, with the help of the historic situation and the old concepts, had so thoroughly captured the minds of white people that his was the only Negro voice that could be heard in the jungle. (615)” Washington believed that the whites would eventually come to realize the value of black workers, which strongly supported his view of why the blacks did not need to leave nor go to the North. He supported his view and wanted empowerment for the African Americans that he wanted to train them and advocate self-help, which led to the founding of the Tuskegee Institute. Washington urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and get themselves through hard work and economic gain to win the respect of

Du Bois believed that African American should prove their worth as creators of unique artistic traditions in order to achieve their equal rights. Du Bois idea is supported by Gates and Smith in their book, The Norton Anthology Of African American Literature, which states that, “Expressed in various ways, the creativity of black Americans undoubtedly came from the common source---the irresistible impulse of black to create boldly expressive art of a high quality as a primary response to their social conditions, as an affirmation of their dignity and humanity in the face of poverty and racism (Gates, Smith 930).” He believed that literature was the way to go in order to obtain the change that the African Americans wanted, which was called civil rights by copyright. He wanted to compete on highest levels of New York society called the Harlem Renaissance by developing this black literary movement. Du Bois preached and practiced by Booker T. Washington, then the most influential black man in