Washington Is being remembered for the address of “Atlanta Exposition” In this particular speech, Booker T called on the Whites to provide Industrial, agricultural education and job for the Negroes. In return the African Americans will stop the demanding for civil rights and social equality. The message he passed to the Negroes was that social equality and politics were not really important as the immediate goals than independence and respectability of the economy. Washington had this belief that if blacks gained a foothold of the economy, and also proved how useful they can be to the Whites, then they will achieve social equality and civil rights because it will eventually be given to them in the long run. African Americans were urged and encouraged to work as skilled artisans, farmers, manual laborers, and domestics servants to show the Whites that all African Americans were not “liars and chicken thieves”.
Booker T. Washington's philosophy was on accommodation to the oppression of the Whites. He gave advice to African Americans to trust and believe the paternalism of the Whites in the south and accept the fact of the supremacy of the white. He also stressed on the mutual interdependence of Whites and African Americans in the South, but they say that they believed to maintain being socially separate; “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress”. Washington advised African Americans to keep saving their money, keep working hard, keep purchasing property, obtaining a useful education and most importantly to remain in the south. By obeying such orders, Washington believed the Blacks could earn full citizenship rights ultimately. Whites...
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...lusion, both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois had the same dream for African Americans which was mainly Citizenship but their way of achieving it differed from each other. Due to interest in immediate goals in Washington's economic approach, Whites didn't find out that he anticipated the full acceptance and transformation of Negroes into American life. He believe that Black had to start so little and work their way up and gradually achieve power, positions, and responsibility before they can now become citizens. Dubois clearly understood Washington's program but believed that it was not the remedy to the race problem. He kept believing that African Americans should study liberal arts and possess the same rights as Whites. Dubois believed that Blacks should not sacrifice their constitutional rights in order to finally achieve a status that was guaranteed already.
...to be equally educated. His speeches not only attracted the black people but also, northern and southern white people. Booker worked hard for all that he achieved during his life time. People all over were followers of Booker T. Washington. One example of how much these followers appreciated Washington is through raising money for a trip to Europe. Not just anyone went to Europe in those days. The trip showed how much the people appreciated Booker’s efforts for civil rights and education of blacks. They sent
In this essay you will read about numerous similarities as well as differences between these two gentlemen. Their names are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. But before I explain the differences between these two gentlemen, I will give you a more in depth background on each of them. This information that I will provide for you will give you a clearer thought on how they were raised and their beliefs.
While DuBois respected Booker T. Washington and his accomplishments, he did not. felt that blacks needed political power to protect what they had and what they earned. DuBois called for a new plan of action. He felt that the The greatest enemy of blacks was not necessarily whites but it was the ignorance of the whites concerning the capabilities of the black race. DuBois's answer was to encourage the development of black youth in America.
...ts, history noticed that Washington saw more progress than Du Bois. The reason for this was Washington followed a moral of hard work that most people understood, whether they were African American or white. By appealing and following through with his beliefs he received beneficial help from whites to support his development of the Tuskegee Institute and recognition that Africans deserved civil rights. Du Bois’ The Crisis, “Niagara Movement of Declaration of Principles,” and The Souls of Black Folk were known by many, but not in the way he hoped. Many turned against his views since they were too radical and demanding resulting in Du Bois’ attacks towards Washington since he lost faith in his own works. For these reasons, Washington’s tactics to obtain civil rights for African Americans was extremely suitable for the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Booker T. Washington thought that Blacks should earn their respect gradually after getting an education and becoming business man of the industrial world. W.E.B Du Bois was more of demanding it and he also thought they should try everything they could to earn the respect they needed. Although Booker and W.E.B had there differences, Booker's strategy was more appropriate for the time period and that W.E.B wanted the Blacks to make some sacrifices in order to achieve there goals.
Booker T. Washington was an African American leader who established an African-American college in 1181. Then in 1895 delivered the Atlanta Compromise Speech to an audience of mainly Southerners, but some Northerners were present. In his speech he made a few points. He said, “No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” Washington believed that the African American race needed to learn first that manual labor was just as important as the work of intellects. He thought that until they learned this they were not worthy of becoming intellects themselves. The color line is thus important in teaching them this lesson. He also said, “It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges.” His opinion was that one day blacks would deserve to have equal rights with the whites, but right now in 1895 the blacks needed to be...
In 1895, Washington was asked to speak at the opening of the Cotton States Exposition, a good thing for an African American. His Atlanta Compromise speech explained his idea, that blacks could protect their rights through their own economic and moral progress rather than through legal and political changes. Although his calm stand angered some blacks who feared it would encourage the enemy of equal rights, whites approved of his views. His major achievement was to win over diverse elements among southern whites, without whose support the programs he thought and brought into being would have been impossible.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois we’re both two great leaders of the black community in the early 1900s. They both shared similar strategies in shaping the future for the black population in the south as well as some complete opposite ideas facing the progression of the black man in the start of the century. Washington actually believed that blacks and whites can work together but be totally separated as he stated on page 1 of the excerpt from W.E.B Du Bois, “In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet by all odds the most notable things essential to mutual progress”. Washington asked blacks to give up political power, insistence of civil rights and higher education of Negro youth (page 4. Du Bois) in order to focus more of their well being through hard work and the education gained from their ability to buy land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your
In his autobiography, Up From Slavery, Washington talks about the ways that slavery hurt not only the slave, but also the slavemaster. He talks about the relationship of familiarity that existed between the slaves on the plantation and their masters. In all his writing, he uses unifying language that shows empathy to both sides and seeks to come to a peaceful agreement between the two. For example, in his “Atlanta Compromise” speech, Washington tells African Americans that a good way to begin to be accepted into society is, “making friends with the Southern white man, who is your next-door neighbor,” Washington valued economic welfare for blacks first and foremost; and he viewed achieving it as the best way to achieve equality. In his speech he told people to, “Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service… No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.,” He told his fellow black men that working a low-class job should not be scorned or frowned upon, but viewed as a starting place from which to grow. His approach was never filled with the righteous indignation that characterized other civil rights figures, such as Dubois himself. He sought to make honest
Washington explains how he and his people learned to live with what they have, and who they are, how they did not wait for help or outside supplies, like during the war,” the slaves felt the deprivation less than the whites” because they were accustomed to eat what was available around them. The author explains that “the slaves (…) had mastered some handicraft, and none were ashamed (…) to labour.” The author wants all people to help one another, to look for what can be useful for our common society, to “cement the friendship of the races and bring about hearty cooperation between them”. He wants African-Americans to “(make) friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded”, to be proud to be able to make a living by “the productions of our hands”, to not be ashamed to work hard and “dignify and glorify common labour”, to learn that manual labor is as valuable as the intellectual one because “ there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” His lesson is also addressed to the white people who have to realize that the African-American population has been part of the American experience from the start and it is a great treasure to have to help prolong the “mutual progress” of the common future. He does not hide the importance of cooperation and interconnection that must exist from both sides because “there is no defence or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of
“It should come as no surprise that Washington’s historical conflict culminated as a struggle between him and DuBois” (Gibson III 66). To say the least, both men were very active in the upbringing of African-Americans, but their differences in displaying out the solution was what brought them apart. Washington wanted the education system to enforce industrial teachings that started at lower economic power, while DuBois had more abstract ideas of equality and voting for African-Americans. Washington was conservative in the matter of African-American inclusion into society, hoping that given enough time and progress, people would learn to accept them, rather than fight for social power like what DuBois stood for. Despite Washington’s program that appealed to White-Americans, he was involved in politics and spoke about the disfranchisement of African-Americans.
The speech “Atlanta Exposition” was written by Booker T Washington on September 18, 1895. Washington was a very influential African American in that time period, due to his influence as a leader and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The intended audience during this time was the President of the United States and all people across the country. The main argument presented by Washington is that whites and blacks should focus on working together in order to better our society as a whole. He describes that if both sides come together, there would be more growth industrially and socially. Washington states, “Cast down your bucket where you are” cast it down in making friends, in every manly way, of the people of all races by whom we
Some of the central themes Booker T. Washington went over in his speech, “Atlanta Exposition Address” that this essay will address were the uplift of African-Americans through self-help, and a focus on economic equality instead of political and civil rights. As well as a focus on industrial and agricultural labor for African-Americans instead of professions that require an academic college education. W.E.B. DuBois in “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” expressed themes meant for the advancement of African-Americans such as full enfranchisement, civic equality, and education of youth according to their unique abilities, not only a focus on labor intensive work. This essay will also address potential reasons why Booker T. Washington and
Washington 's programme naturally takes an economic cast” (Du Bois). Du Bois believed that Washington’s theory was a gospel of Work and Money that ultimately overshadowed the higher aims of life” Later he makes another statement so powerful that should have made all African Americans want to stand up and fight for a better social status and rights for both the South and North. He goes on stating “The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful differences of a generation ago ought to be a source of deep congratulation to all, and especially to those whose mistreatment caused the war; but if that reconciliation is to be marked by the industrial slavery and civic death of those same black men, with permanent legislation into a position of inferiority, then those black men, if they are really men, are called upon by every consideration of patriotism and loyalty to oppose such a course by all civilized methods, even though such opposition involves disagreement with Mr. Booker T. Washington.” (Du
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Virginia in 1856, and educated at Hampton Institute, an institute that provided black people with vocational training. In 1895 he was invited to deliver a speech after the school he created in Alabama was a success. His speech in 1895 happened the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta. During his speech, he condoned social segregation and it was labeled by journalists as the “Atlanta Compromise.” His speech was mainly about the problem ‘’negro’’ and white Americans faced on having a good relationship. According to Brooke T. Washington, both races could be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. Black people faced a social and economic crisis, and Brooke