Compare And Cantrast Web Du Bois & Booker T Washington

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of Black students and Black Bostonians. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Yet he felt that he needed further preparation and study in order to be able to apply "philosophy to an historical interpretation of race relations." He decided to spend another two years at the University of Berlin on a Slater Fund Fellowship.
W. E. B. Du Bois traveling widely in Europe, was delighted by the absence of color consciousness and impressed by their mellow civilization. Still, he knew that his life's work was at home, and returned to America in 1894.
His work as an editor of The Crisis, the organ of the NAACP, from 1910 to 1934 was perhaps the most sustained and uncompromising single effort in the history of racial protests in America. As early as 1909 he had projected an "Encyclopedia Africana" that would preserve and expand the store of knowledge about Black people. Encyclopedia of the Negro: Preparatory Volume appeared in 1945. Du Bois's twilight years in Ghana where devoted mainly ...

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at the age of ninety-three, he joined the Communist Party of the United States.
W. E. B. Du Bois, a Ghanian citizen, died on the evening of August 27, 1963. The legacy of Du Bois as a writer, thinker, and racial leader may well prove to be more durable than that of any other Afro-American of the twentieth century.
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave on April 5, 1956, in Franklin County, Virginia. His mother, Jane Burroughs, was a plantation cook, and his father was an unknown white man.
A former slave who had become a successful farmer, and a white politician in search of the Negro vote in Macon County, obtained financial support for a training school for blacks in ...

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