Marcus Garvey Vs Dubois

By the mid twentieth century, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were the two most persuasive dark men in the nation. Washington's propitiatory way to deal with social equality had made him skilled at raising money for his Tuskegee Institute, and in addition for other dark associations, and had likewise charmed him to the white foundation, including President Theodore Roosevelt, who regularly counseled him in regards to all issues dark. Then again, Du Bois had at that point turn into the nation's premier dark scholarly, having distributed various persuasive chips away at the states of dark Americans. Rather than Washington, Du Bois kept up that instruction and social liberties were the best way to balance, and that surrendering their interest would basically serve to strengthen the thought of blacks as peons. Following a progression of articles in which the two men elucidated their philosophies, their disparities at last reached a crucial stage when, in 1903, Du Bois distributed a work titled The Souls of Black Folks, in which he straightforwardly reprimanded Washington and his approach and went ahead to request full social equality for blacks.

Du Bois’s point of view is that African Americans were judge different and it was like them vs the world. Du Bois thought that if African Americans got freedom, education, and power they can achieve true self-consciousness, which means, conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself: aware of oneself as an individual (According to Merriam Webster). In paragraph 12 Du Bois compares the story of Israelites’ quest for the Promised Land of Canaan to African Americans’ search freedom. This shows his point of view that African Americans need freedom, political power. He says that Emancipation alone did not result in freedom for African Americans.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, blacks were in a constant fight for advancement and progress. However, class divisions gave rise to two contrasting platforms led by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. By examining the conditions and actions of African American working-class women in Atlanta from Tera W. Hunter’s To ‘Joy My Freedom, the platform that would most resonate with the African Americans’ quest for progress would be found in W.E.B. Du Bois.

W.E.B. Du Bois was a major force in twentieth-century society, whose aim in life was to help define African-American social and political causes in the United States. History writes that W.E.B. Du Bois was a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and Pan-Africanist. However, white people who feared him labeled him a trouble maker and some black people saw him as an outcast. No matter what Du Bois’s critics thought about him, Du Bois was the voice of African-American fight for equality. As a prolific writer and speaker he was regarded by many as a prophet. Historical record researched and documented revealed, Du Bois is mostly “known for his conflict with Booker T. Washington over the role of blacks in American society. In an essay on Booker T. Washington, Du Bois praised Washington for preaching Thrift, Patience, and Industrial trainee emasculation effects of caste distinctions, opposes to the higher training of young African-American minds”. My essay will focus on one of Du Bois’s most famous works “The Souls of Black Folk” written in (1903). Because the short story is so detailed I am going to focus on two of his most controversial concepts (veils and double-consciousness). The concepts that Du Bois used to describe the quintessential African-American experience and how white-American views defined them in the 20th century. I will use scenarios to explain how these concepts affected the identity of African-Americans.

During the presentation “Paying Homage to Black/African-American Military History”, the first subject was with regards of Crispus Attucks a hero of the Revolutionary War. While Dr. Warren Miller elaborate about Crispus Attucks protesting against British tariffs by dock workers, he then transitioned to another marvel figure in the late 19th century named Marcus Garvey a spokesman for black self reliance. During the time of his presentation, Garvey was the founder and president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In addition, Garvey was associated with the “black to Africa” movement after WWⅠ. Subsequently, during that topic I recall another meaningful event in history with reference to “W.E.B. Du Bois, The Returning Soldier (1919)”

Washington and Du Bois were two great leaders of the black community throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. However, Du Bois views on economic progress would not have gained the attention needed without the work of Washington. Du Bois advocated political action, and a civil rights agenda. And he believed that social change could be accomplished. Whereas, Washington believed in education and elevating themselves [blacks] through hard work would win the respects of whites and lead African Americans to be accepted fully into all society. Du Bois viewed Washington’s strategy would serve only to perpetuate white oppression, and “Mr. Washington withdraws many of the high demands of the Negroes as men and American citizens” (897). Although the two

William Edward Burghardt, also known as "W. E. B." Du Bois, was a civil rights activist, journalist, educator, and an American sociologist among many other things. In addition, Du Bois was an author of an extremely influential book, “The Souls of Black Folk.” Published in 1903, the Civil Rights Movement was merely at its peak when this occurred. Not only molding a form of sociology, Du Bois acted and performed in the movement inevitably.

While on a journey through Central American Garvey notice that black people were the power of the economy but since they could not come together as one they were powerless. At the moment Garvey valued to

For example, the 1903 New York Times review of The Souls of Black Folk asserts, "probably he does not understand his own people in their natural state." Such statements not only support Du Bois' interpretation of the way African Americans are viewed by white America but also reflect the way he himself was viewed as not a "natural" black man, and, in fact, divided from his people.

As W. E. B DuBois and Marcus Garvey were both forms of pan-Africanism, it was the differences in beliefs and their methods on hand that would impact the effects of the future. Garvey makes considerable presentation in raising recognition and consciousness of the African struggles. On the other hand, DuBois’s pan-Africanism,

Du Bois takes readers on a journey from the Reconstructions period to 1903. It takes 164 pages to discuss the entire era from the history of the African-American community. It starts from the Freedmen’s Bureau and struggle to earn living by farming in the early years of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War. Then, it tells a reader about black people unable to find housing and acquire skills and facing virulent racial bias in the job market. The Harlem Renaissance and racial movement started from the points described in the book. The book became a basis for the civil rights and advancement of black people’s position in America. It played an important role in the racial movement and helped to educate those African-American leaders of the black community who led it to the struggle in the middle of the 20th century. The author also points at the issue of duality of identity in African-American community. This phenomenon played a crucial role in the uprising of the revolutionary movements. The book raises the questions of the lack of balanced employment, ownership and land possession and morality in the American

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, born in 1868, was a scholar, activist, and philosopher, born into the era of Reconstruction and lynching. Though he accomplished much in his life, Du Bois is largely known for helping found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and writing one of the most prominent works in American critical race theory, The Souls of Black Folk. Du Bois made it his life’s work to contest racism through self-assertion, humanize black people across the globe, and find a way to integrate black society and white American society. Much of his rhetoric focused on “double consciousness” and “the veil,” separate but closely related concepts that Du Bois used to describe the experience of Americans, both black and white. While Du Bois passed away a mere day before the March on Washington in 1963, his rhetoric remains vital to anti-racist philosophy; for today, Americans live in an age of colorblind racism. It is a commonly held amongst white Americans belief that all Americans are treated equally and fairly, often citing the civil rights movements of the 1960’s in which the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 came to be. However, as of 2016, 42% of black Americans are dissatisfied in regards to how they are treated, while a mere 15% of white Americans are dissatisfied with the treatment of black Americans.1 Much of Du Bois’ rhetoric focused on education; more specifically, how to use the role of institutions,

One in particular was W.E. DuBois because of Washington’s “accommodationist” approach. According to Du Bois, Washington’s controlling influence was the most extreme in the Negroes history. Du Bois credited Washington’s timing as the catalyst to his leadership. Because the free Negroes from 1830 until wartime had attempted to build industrial school that taught various trades to bridge an alliance with elite Southerners, Du Bois reminds his audience that Washington’s plan is not original. Nevertheless, Washington takes the past ideas and markets it in his program at Tuskegee Institute and gets the support of Whites- Southerners and Northerners. Du Bois criticized Washington’s plan as abandonment the basic rights of manhood-political power, civil rights and higher education. In contrast, industrial education, land ownership, wealthy accumulation and the appeasement of the South are the doctrines of Washington’s plan. Du Bois says that Washington’s plan is impossible if Negroes don’t have civil and voting rights. Not only is Washington’s plan flawed in concept but he does not have the support of two classes of Negroes, the separatist who hate whites because of racial injustice and the activist who petition for civil rights. Du Bois is absolute in pointing out that Washington’s plan of ceasing to obtain civil rights and replacing its efforts with subserviency was supported by Du Bois. He emphasizes that the educated white man wants to disenfranchise then Negroes, or deport them, the uneducated white man hates the Negroes because they are competing for the same jobs, and the white business men or” moneymakers” aspires to use the Negroes as cheap labor and to endanger them to Jim Crow law and behavior. Because of the Negroes’ “wrong education in the past”, the South’s justification of Negro treatment, and self- efforts of the

The 1920s were a crossroads for African Americans, just freed from de jure slavery but still under the very yoke of oppression they were looking for the path that would give them true freedom not only from their former slave masters but the freedom to live a full and equal life in America. In search of these answers the black world of the 1920s nominated three philosophers and educators, not by trade but by right, to lead them to true freedom, equality, and progress, those are Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Dubois. And these three had drastically different viewpoints on how the black race should develop and grow within, or outside of, America. Marcus Garvey, the father of modern Black Nationalism, saw black salvation as something

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, otherwise known as W.E.B Du Bois, accordingly introduced the idea of “double-consciousness” which he described to be a person whose identity can be “merged into a unity that they and the nation could be proud,” as stated in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Henry Louis Gates and Valerie Smith (Gates and Smith, page 682). Throughout history, the stories behind the lives of African American’s has been recognized as a tough, ongoing battle. The fine line between white and black, has been the core reason of prejudice beliefs. Beliefs such as African American’s being inhuman, aggressive, unworthy of equality and liberty, etc., have lead to misconceptions of them as individuals. Being that