Dubois vs. Washington

Delivered his Atlanta Compromise speech at the 1895 International Cotton Expo

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Leader of the Tuskegee Institute that provided vocational education & job training for African Americans

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Who would have said: " It's infinately more important to have the right to earn a dollar at a job than to spend that dollar at a theater or opera house"?

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Was an original founding member of the Niagara Movement (an early civil rights organization)

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Believed political rights were more important than economic rights

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Proposed the idea of a "Talented Tenth"- college education for 10% of the leading African Americans

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Promoted economic independence over social and political equality

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Believed that African Americans should first establish themselves by hard work to earn the respect of whites before pushing for civil rights

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Who would have said: "The right to spend a dollar in an equal society is more important than the right to earn a dollar at a job"?

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois