Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubouis

booker T uppercase and blade Du Bois had very different ideas about(predicate) how the newly freed African Americans should locomote as citizens of the United States. Washington believed in accommodating the dust coat mans comfort, or discomfort, with African Americans in a position of semi governmental or economic power. He believed in moving precedent gradually while acting carefully not to whole t matchless on any light toes. Washington insist that African Americans should be happy to check a vocation from which they could need an acceptable living. Du Bois believed that African Americans had realize their brand in American politics and should have every(prenominal) opportunity to experience higher(prenominal) education and economic success.\n booker T Washington was natural into slavery on April 5th, 1856 in Virginia. He witnessed the harsh truthfulness of living in bondage. When he and his family were emancipated, he witnessed the turmoil that existed in the midst of African Americans and white southerners. As he grew in age, education, and prominence, he witnessed the rise of the KKK and lynching crosswise the south. He witnessed the persistent menace that existed against any African American who tried to exercise their political rights. These experiences may explain his waver to agitate the environment of racial tension that existed. Instead, his idea for coexistence was one of compromise and accommodation.\nThese ideas found their room into public view when he addressed the battle of Atlanta cotton Exposition. The speech that he gave in front of a racially mixed audience in the south would come to be known as the Atlanta Compromise  due to its whippy nature. In his speech, he asserted that African Americans should understand their institutionalise in society. That they must lop their way up by starting at the roll in the hay and be happy running(a) with their hands doing what they knew how to do best, farm. He felt that th e newly freed African Americans were ignorantly over stint for a higher place in society than what they we...