Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois dealt with black poverty and discrimination in different ways, through different methods of education and public movements.
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois differed on how blacks should be educated. Washington believed that education should incorporate both academics and a trade. He believed that slavery led to racism, and racism would end once African Americans acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society (Doc D). However W.E.B. Du Bois alleged that racism was the cause of slavery, and that the only way to achieve economic success was to obtain political rights.…
