Compare and Contrast Essay

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30 October 2007

A Comparison of Economic Philosophies

of Booker T . Washington and W .E .B . DuBois

Blacks would not have their status today without their wise and brave leaders . Two of them were Booker T . Washington and W .E .B . DuBois . Both of them had become popular to be the voice of the blacks to the whites The two had at first stood for a common goal this is for the betterment of blacks in the society . But due to their differing economic philosophies on

how would this be accomplish , the black 's movement had turned to take up two separate ways . Looking ahead

Both Booker T . Washington and W .E .B . Du Bois gave hope to the blacks of their time . At the very start they were on the same side that they should do something in to alleviate the status of the blacks to be equal with the status of the whites . But how to attain this goal had made them separate to two ways

Booker T . Washington , born a slave but had founded his way to establish and be the principal of Tuskegee Institute , a normal and industrial school in Alabama , believed that in to attain the same rights that the whites has is that firstly the blacks should wish for more education that would give more jobs to the negroes in the field of agriculture and industries but in return they would surrender their struggle for civil rights . Washington pursued the doctrine of economic advancement combined with acceptance of disfranchisement and conciliation ' which was initiated by General Samuel Chapman Armstrong , the founder of the school he had attended , the Hampton Institute in Virginia . Washington is famous for his speeches and writings . His immensely popular autobiography , Up from Slavery , had become an inspiration for other blacks . Included in the autobiography are Washington 's experiences that every other black could relate to : the sufferings , the discrimination and the unsanitary conditions . But his willingness to go to school had made him prosper . He worked for a salt mine and then later on in a coal mine to have money for his schooling . With the help of General Armstrong 's Hampton Institute that permits people of his race to learn the useful skills of life , he had gradually stepped up . He wanted that his experience be the same to other blacks . In his speech named the Atlanta Compromise , in front of a large group of whites , he had addressed that the whites should give blacks more opportunity to have education but in return , blacks would give up demands for social equality and civil rights . He then addressed to the Negroes that economic respectability and independence were more important than political and social equality

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois advocated at first the idea of Washington . But years had passed by and Du Bois had changed his philosophy . From being a supporter of Washington 's gradualist economic strategy , he had switch to a more radical...