Question

4. What was DuBois's belief about ridding society of segregation?

Answer 1

Racism and discrimination were the frequent targets of Du Bois's polemics, and he loudly protested against lynchings, Jim Crow laws and discrimination in education. Du Bois made several trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. After the First World War, he surveyed black soldiers in France and documented widespread intolerance in the United States military. His cause included people of color from all over, particularly the Asians and Africans in their struggle against colonialism and imperialism. He was an advocate of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African congresses to free African colonies from European powers. Du Bois was also a feminist who supported the women's suffrage movement in the United States.

Answer 2

W. E. B. Du Bois was considered a radical during his time for how he demanded immediate equality between races.

Du Bois expected social science to help eliminate segregation, which is an idea that he eventually gave up, concluding that the way to fight racism effectively was agitation. He constantly challenged, also, the idea that black people were accommodated.