Question

How did DuBois's beliefs about achieving equality, as reflected in this quotation, differ from those of Booker T. Washington?

Answer 1

DuBois believed that social equality must be established first, in the American society, for blacks to earn their rightful place in the society. Booker T. Washington believed that blacks should get together and work hard to come up in society, but they should be accommodating to social discrimination till then. As it can be seen, both differed in their views on achieving equality.

William Edward B. DuBois (1868 – 1963) was an American civil rights activist.

Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915) was an American author, speaker and advisor to Presidents of the United States.