Fighting for Your Rights Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were two different people with completely different beliefs. To start off, Booker T. Washington was a black educator in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was born a slave, but around the age of 9, union soldiers arrived at their plantation and told him and his family they were free. He also believed that “directly fighting for equality would only lead to more anti-black violence (such as lynching)” and also wanted to
not simply in terms of the broad and obvious intent to better the conditions of “black folk”, it was in terms of the very details that defined the trajectory and means of the advancement of blacks in America and all over the world. It is clear that the seeming ideological disunity between the Garvey and Du Bois perspectives only masked the commonalities that underpinned each of their approaches to
achieve the American Dream had great significance in African American Literature. From the end of the Civil War to present day America, African American authors, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, and Natasha Trethewey, use the written word to expose the injustices and the challenges that black Americans faced in achieving their version of the American Dream. Over the years, the concept of the American Dream is
who was driven by ambition to make money and achieve respect. He had moved to Mexico to avoid segregation and racial injustice in the United States. As the manager of an electric company and owner of a ranch and mines, Jim expressed contempt for black Americans who continued to submit to segregation and live in poverty. Langston Hughes, 1933 (Library of Congress) Langston was not ashamed