Question

How did the views of W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington about the best way to achieve equality differ?

A. Du Bois believed African Americans should emigrate as they could not achieve equality in the United States.

B. Du Bois believed that improving the education system for African Americans would lead to racial equality.

C. Du Bois believed that accepting segregation and disenfranchisement would lead to social equality.

D. Du Bois believed that gaining political and social rights was the most important part of the struggle.

Answer 1

between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, which in the late 19th to early 20th centuries changed the course of the quest for equality in American society, and in the process helped give birth to the modern civil rights movement. Though Washington and Du Bois were born in the same era, both highly accomplished scholars and committed to the cause of civil rights for Black people in America, it was their differences in background and method that would have the greatest impact on the future.