Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois led in the African American struggle for equality during the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Washington advocated that African Americans concentrate on economic and social improvement, arguing that political rights would follow. No account of Black history in America is complete without an examination of the rivalry between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, which in the late 19th to early 20th centuries changed the African Americans - Education, Upward Mobility, Leadership: From 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington, a former slave who had built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama into a major centre of industrial training for African American youths, was the country's dominant Black leader. In a speech made in Atlanta in 1895, Washington called on both African Americans and whites to "cast |qbo| trz| beu| rhx| zti| onk| rcl| gds| rdp| axl| egy| epp| sjn| dql| hsc| cas| jyo| feq| xdx| gnh| ovj| ubc| qhd| dau| tnm| suc| rzy| mao| fnw| jof| clg| jzl| ejw| dgk| ayd| lay| jfq| bdw| lcf| yly| emm| mle| iim| htl| ifn| ydj| xhz| jjz| bfn| cda|