Advantages And Disadvantages Of W. E. B. Dubois

Booker T. Washington was known as a teacher, writer, and spokesperson for African Americans. However, his plan for African Americans is not one that I particularly agree with. Although W.E.B Du Bois was not on the same level as Washington and not as respected, his plan of action was one that I in fact do agree with. Washington’s plan consisted of African Americans giving up the fight for their civil rights and continuing to depend on the white man. Du Bois on the other hand, had a plan of action. His disagreement with Washington was not just because he disliked Washington but more because he saw him as a sellout. Du Bois

W.E.B. Dubois The great African American intellectual W.E.B. Dubois was born in the post-Civil War era. Being born at this time encouraged him to fight for equal rights for blacks. At this time, blacks were still suppressed very greatly. Dubois, having had lived in an all black community, experienced racism first-hand in the North (Donalson, 558).

Throughout history, African Americans have encountered an overwhelming amount of obstacles for justice and equality. You can see instances of these obstacles especially during the 1800’s where there were various forms of segregation and racism such as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan terrorism, Jim- Crow laws, voting restrictions. These negative forces asserted by societal racism were present both pre and post slavery. Although blacks were often seen as being a core foundation for the creation of society and what it is today, they never were given credit for their work although forced. This was due to the various laws and social morals that were sustained for over 100 years throughout the United States. However, what the world didn’t

W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T Washington had very different views about their culture and country. Du Bois, being born in the North and studying in Europe, was fascinated with the idea of Socialism and Communism. Booker T Washington, on the other hand, was born in the South, and like so many others, had a Black mother and a White father. Thus being born half-white, his views and ideas were sometimes not in the best interest of his people.

African-Americans have fought on many of liberty’s battlefields from the pre-emancipated plantation to the killing fields of the Civil War. African-Americans have always been willing to fight not just for their freedom, but for their country as well. Yet, their country never lived up to its founding document that asserts that, “All men are created equal; ”instead,

The fight has taken African Americans a very long way. “However African Americans are still fighting the fight today (John Kirk)”. “Areas that contain predominantly African Americans have so many materials that contribute to their struggle, their pain, and their heart ache. They still hardly know anything about their home land. . There are birth control facilities within 15 minutes from each other to abort their babies (Maafa 21)”. Nearby Gang violence is all around the African American community.” “At night I can hear the gun shots. There also happens to be a liquor store on almost every corner. Living in an environment such as this can bring you down mentally and physically. How can you succeed when your people continue to fail? How can you want to be a doctor or lawyer when many of your people are on welfare, selling drugs, or working dead end jobs just to make the ends meet (Lana Bullock interview)”? “However if you head over to predominately white communities I don’t see birth control facilities as much. I rarely ever see drug dealers. You have to drive pretty far to access a liquor store. The point is why do we

William Edward Burkhardt DuBois, whom we all know as W.E.B. DuBois; was a novelist, public speaker, poet, editor, author, leader, teacher, scholar, and romantic. He graduated from high school at the age of 16, and was selected as the valedictorian, being that he was the only black in his graduating class of 12. He was orphaned shortly after his graduation and was forced to fund his own college education. He was a pioneer in black political thoughts and known by many as a main figure in the history of African-American politics. W.E.B. DuBois attended Fisk University, where he was awarded a scholarship after he graduated high school. Fisk University was located in Nashville, Tennessee. While attending this University, this is where he saw

The meaning of freedom for black Americans have changed over time, during the Gilded Age Blacks’ definition of freedom was defined as a new “social order” still driven at the hope of an American society breaking free from the anti-democratic restraints imposed by a corrupt government. This concept of freedom changed when WWII and the 1960’s Conservative Revolution started ,allowing blacks to reap the benefits of social, political and economic prosperities by having the “right to choose” and participate in part of the American society .

They have lived through the lives toughest experiences, providing for a household of 4 while making less than $20,000 a year. In addition to that, being able to send two kids off to college, were the tuition is more than they make 3 years. Through all the adversity and pain Black people still find a way to make it by depending on each other. Going into college my parents did not have the additional burden of purchasing basic dorm room necessities (a comforter, towels, soap, etc), because people within my community contributed financially to make sure I had everything I needed.This just goes to say that America can not destroy a movement, that is “deeply rooted in our minds and our lives”

“Here we are black people yet again faced with the magnitude of our need and the inadequacy of our resources trying to make ends meet. Trying to begin again” (Cooper). For a very long time blacks had been trying to survive since before slavery. It hasn’t been light on the black populations because no matter what is being done, there is always the white supremacy in the way trying to hold the black nation down into captivity. Black people not in any way have no justice because blacks do not grasp how to build a relationship each other. The white men all fear the day that the black nation/ all blacks/all Africans would unionize. Overthrow those who been had them in oppression and haul what is theirs, that is everything. Even though segregation has been fought for so long, it seems as if it still exists.

The Crisis was a magazine that W.E.B DuBois created in 1910 and it was also the official magazine of the NAACP. DuBois was not only the founder of this magazine, but he was also the editor. The targeted audience of this magazine was the African American community. At this point in time a magazine that was ran by Black people and for Black people was unheard of. The purpose of this magazine was to shine light on who and what the Black community was, to create an outlet where Black scholars could share their work, and it was a source where Black people could get useful information (the information was tailored to the Black community’s needs) from trusted sources. The magazine became very influential, at its peak the magazine had 100,000 readers

African Americans in America are fighting to gain back their identity that was stripped from them almost 500 years ago and is still being withheld until now. It would seem as if that there was some type of progress going off the fact that we now have a black president but as far as I am concerned it is all part of this façade to allow the people to get comfortable and think that the fight is over. We must ban together as a people in order to overthrow white capitalism in America. No matter how many ways you look at it the Drive that was behind all that has occurred from the last 500 years or so is money. Abram Harris believed that Economy was a push behind it all, which I will touch on in the next few paragraphs.

Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation (proclamation that set slaves free), African Americans around the United States felt just as chained as once when they walked of the boats that robbed them from their homeland and their families. Frankly due to laws such as Jim Crow. These laws inhabited African Americans across North American, but prominently in the southern states, a starkly unequal world of disfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression including race- inspired violence. In order to change way of their adopted homeland many leaders from within the African American community and beyond rose to prominence during this era called the Civil Rights. Now you may be familiar with the most named activist Martin Luther

If they spoke out long enough then the whites wold eventually have to change their beliefs and let the African American people have their voice in politics.

The United States of America is known for its claims of democracy, equality, and freedom for all of it’s citizens. These claims are the foundation of America’s independence and essentially its entire history. But “claims” are simply all they were in history. While many achieved equal democracy and freedom, the African-American population of the US was exempt from these “inalienable rights” and heavily oppressed by society. The cruelty of slavery and oppression as a whole reached its peak in the 19th century bringing upon the abolitionist movement, which eventually aided in the historic removal of slavery and the continued fight for equal right of citizenship for African-Americans. Of the many abolitionists who fought for