Political Leadership And Its Effects On African Americans

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).

W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were two very influential leaders in the black community during the late 19th century, early 20th century. However, they both had different views on improvement of social and economic standing for blacks. Booker T. Washington, an ex-slave, put into practice his educational ideas at Tuskegee, which opened in 1881. Washington stressed patience, manual training, and hard work. He believed that blacks should go to school, learn skills, and work their way up the ladder. Washington also urged blacks to accept racial discrimination for the time being, and once they worked their way up, they would gain the respect of whites and be fully accepted as citizens. W.E.B. Du Bois on the other hand, wanted a more

Furthermore, Booker T. Washington did not share strategies with Du Bois on one side, and the strategies of W. E. B. Du Bois did not share with Washington. Booker mostly focused on education and wanted African Americans to fight for what they’re worth, to work hard and become someone important in the community. On the other hand, Washington fought for equality. He wanted the White Americans to respect the blacks. His point view was that the community should be led by the most talented. Basically, he wanted blacks and

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.

Uplifting the Race is a rather confusing yet stimulating study that goes over the rising idea and interests in the evolution of "racial uplift" ideology from the turn and through the twentieth century. In the first part of the book, Gaines analyzes the black elite obsession with racial uplift ideology and the tensions it produced among black intellectuals. Gaines argues for the most part that during the nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology was part of a "liberation theology" as stated by Gaines, which stressed a group struggle for freedom and social advancement.

For instance, these African American leaders had some similarities throughout their life. The first thing they have in common is they both had a massive amount of education. They both went to many Universities. Second, was they both wanted to end racism. During those times many African American were being discriminated or segregated.

Booker T. Washington was the type of African American leader that was fighting for more economic opportunities instead of civil and educational rights. He thought that if African Americans established an economic base they would be able to eventually receive political and social equality, even

W.E.B. DuBois was a very strong advocate for black people being treated equally to white people. He co-founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Which was a very important part of the civil rights movement. The NAACP was “created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights”. He also created a book called “The Souls Of Black Folk” Which made him more popular, with the main Idea of the book being that the “central problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” He was a man who fought for equality, where Booker T. Washington, on the other hand, did not. Booker T. Washington thought that black people should in fact have different rights then white people, and that instead of fighting it, black people should just accept it, and focus on economic self-improvement. He also believed that black people should not fight for equal rights, because it would lead to more anti-black violence, such as lynching which is the act of killing someone, most commonly by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority. By these facts you can tell that Washington and

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were both highly regarded as early advocates for equality for African American civil rights post emancipation and are highly regarded as the beginning founding fathers of the African American progression although both are noted for having different methodologies on how the goals should be accomplished.

Over 100 years ago W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington began a debate over strategies for black social and economic progress, which is still prevalent today. Booker T. Washington believed that the role of education for African Americans should be an industrial one, where as W.E.B DuBois wanted African Americans to become engaged in a Liberal Arts education.

Few men have influenced the lives of African-Americans as much as William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois is considered more of a history-maker than a historian(Aptheker, "The Historian"). Dr. Du Bois conducted the initial research on the black experience in the United States. Civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. have referred to Du Bois as a father of the Civil Rights Movement. Du Bois conducted the initial research on the black experience in the United States, and paved the way for the Pan-African and Black Power movements. This paper will describe his life, work, influence in the black community, and much publicized civil dispute with another black leader, Booker T. Washington.

Another key point is obtaining political power of the African American would give the essential voice needed locally, statewide, and on a federal level to convert their policy preferences into law. (Vega 2016) Policies that correspond to the African American community would be vital to issues of crime, welfare and housing. The African American concerns currently are often ignored by elected officials, because they conflict with white preferences. In this case gains in political power would offset this imbalance allowing elected officials with the African American community views a greater chance to impact policies into become a law. (Page 2015) Strengthening the voice of the African America on a political level will make it to where their preferences

The debate between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois involve people at all levels of the black community. It shaped the way that black leaders discussed race, and its opened new opportunities for poor blacks in both the North and South. These two places in particular because that’s where the two were born. W. E. B. Du Bois was born in Massachusetts in 1868. He attended racially integrated elementary and high schools and went off to Fiske College in Tennessee at age 16 on a scholarship. Du Bois completed his formal education at Harvard with a Ph.D. in history. On the other hand, Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Virginia in 1856. Early on in his life, he developed a thirst for reading and learning. After attending an elementary school for African-American children, Washington walked 500 miles to enroll in

The last African American leader was named Marcus Garvey. Not like the other two leaders, he was born in Jamaica in August 17th, 1887. In the year of 1912, he went to London for college. After two years, in 1914 he came back to Jamaica and organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, which was also known as the UNIA. The main goal of this organization was to have an independent society that the African Americans could have their own government and rule their own. There were three main parts of this organization, they were social, political, and economic freedom. In Marcus’s idea, the white people will never truly accept and treat Africans Americans equally. Marcus thought in order to have a better life

The main issue fought by African Americans was their inequality as a person on the basis of their skin color. The ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson left the decision of making equality laws to the state governments, leaving a huge gap for racism. Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois were both early leaders in the Civil Rights Movement, and even though their views were completely conflicting, their names remain memorable by all. Washington, according to Du Bois, accepted the inferiority of African Americans. On the other hand, Du Bois insisted on immediate results and equality for all which should automatically be granted from the U. S. Constitution by stating: