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    Booker T. Washington was an american author, writer, educator, orator, and advisor to presidents of the U.S.A. ; W.E.B Du Bois was a  Pan-Africanist, author, writer, editor  American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist. Both outstanding men in their time, an unmeasurable amount of work achieved, and in both done in the 19th century. By using different aspects of their childhood, accomplishments, and view on civil rights both men can be compared and contrasted emancily.                

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    W.E.B. Du Bois had possessed a strong interest in the improvement of African-American life in the US since before he had gained entry into Fisk University, his first attended college. While in Fisk, he experience excruciatingly hard racism from his peers, which only fueled his desire for a unified social America. He had commissioned a study on African-Americans living in Philadelphia while teaching at Pennsylvania University, titled The Philadelphia Negro, which was used as an outlet to express his

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    In Madeline Burghardt’s article, she describes a common critique of L’Arche by disability scholars. Namely, that L’arche does not sufficiently address “broader policy and human rights concerns” (Burghardt, XXVIII). Instead of taking a stake in political systems, L’Arche emphasizes changing the world through small things with extraordinary love, mutual relationships, and interdependence. On the one hand, L’Arche never claimed to be a site of activism in the typical way. Yet, now that they have grown

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    his notorious feud with civil rights activist Booker T. Washington. Having a strong stand in what he believed in, his main goal was to improve the lives of African Americans. On February 23, 1868, William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born to Alfred Alexander DuBois and Mary Sylvina Burghardt-DuBois. Born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, DuBois was educated alongside Caucasian children and taught by white teachers as well. In 1885 he migrated to Nashville, Tennessee to attend Fisk University

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    Chairman of the department of sociology at Atlanta University • Awarded the Spingarn Medal and the Lenin Peace Prize. Niagara Movement The Niagara Movement was a civil rights organization for African-Americans founded in 1905 by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois or better known as W.E.B Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It tried to legally change criminal, economical, religious, educational, and health care issues. The organization demanded equal rights and that's what separated it from other African-American

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    could be beneficial for reptiles and amphibians. Reptiles and amphibians have been stereotyped as rather simple minded with little personality and minimal care needs According to Burghardt “One study did formally study the effects of enrichment in altering the behavior of yearling rat snakes (Pantherophis) (Almli and Burghardt, 2006). We used 16 snakes from two clutches of eggs from both yellow ratsnakes and black ratsnakes. Half of each clutch were raised with more complex environments with substrate

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    Born February 23, 1868 as William Edward Burghardt Dubois in Great Bannington Massachusetts, W.E.B Dubois was one of the greatest sociologist and protest leaders in history (BIO., 2013). After earning a degree at Fisk, Dubois earned a bachelor’s degree at Harvard, and later became the first African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard. Dubois contributed many articles about race, such as his dissertation “The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America”, “The Philadelphia

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    Booker T Washington Dbq

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    Two important figures in history who were well known for educating African Americans and who also changed the way the U.S education system worked were Booker T. Washington who focused on having education for real life jobs and not asking for equality from whites. He just focused on getting help from whites and accepting their place on earth. And W.E.B. du bois who focused on the exact opposite things that of booker t Washington. Du bois focused on a strategy called gradualist strategy. The gradualist

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    Pepperberg, Snowdon, Shelton, Martins and Burghardt (2017), went over behavioral variation, adaptation and evolution among individual organisms. Individual animals behave differently from each other for extrinsic reasons, and this behavioral variation is the raw substrate for evolutionary change. Behavioral variation can both enhance and constrain long-term evolution, and it provides the basic materials on which natural and sexual selection can act. A rich body of historical experimental and conceptual

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    B. Du Bois

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    “In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.” -W.E.B Dubois On February 23, 1868 in a small town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts one of the greatest leaders in African American history was born. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, better known as W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the greatest scholar, writer, editor, and civil rights activist. Many civil rights leaders and other important black leaders and role models see W.E.B Du Bois as the father of the Civil Rights Movement

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