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... These men were Booker T. ... Du Bois. ...
Booker T. ... As T. ... " Booker T. ... Du Bois, however, had a very different viewpoint. ... As black illiteracy and lynchings grew after military troops abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, Du Bois struggled to make other blacks increasingly aware of the way they were being cheated by whites. ... " Du Bois could not believe that people of his own race were "voluntarily throwing away [their rights] away and insisting that they [did] not want them. ... Du Bois was a bit radical for his times, though he fit perfectly with the 1960s, nearly 10 decades later. Du Bois favored integration and the outlaw of the "separate but equal" law that had been made legal with Plessy vs. ... While his cause was right and just, whites were much more willing to listen to Booker T. ...
In summary, Booker T. ... Du Bois both had very different ideas about how the black man could gain social equality.
Approximate Word count = 707
Approximate Pages = 2.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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