A quote from the reading that is similar and supports the idea that education was important to W.E.B. Du Bois is: "he argued lyrically and passionately that an educated black elite should lead blacks to liberation." This emphasizes Du Bois's belief in the power of education as a tool for empowerment and advancement within the African American community, similar to Washington's emphasis on education.
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, b. Great Barrington, Mass., Feb. 23, 1868, d. Aug. 27, 1963, was a leading champion of the liberation of Africans and people of African descent. He was also a lifelong advocate of world peace. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fisk and Harvard universities, Du Bois was the first African American to be awarded (1895) a Ph.D. from Harvard. In more than 20 books and more than 100 scholarly articles, he pioneered both in historical studies of the black experience and in sociological explorations into African American life. In his most famous book, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), he argued lyrically and passionately that an educated black elite should lead blacks to liberation. In this he differed sharply with Booker T. Washington, who emphasized industrial training for blacks; Washington maintained virtual silence on the questions of social and political equality.
With the aim of ending racial discrimination, Du Bois founded (1905) the Niagara Movement. This organization was a forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which he helped organize in 1909. He edited Crisis for the NAACP from 1910 to 1934. For decades this was essential reading for all those interested in the fate of black people. Du Bois resigned from the NAACP in 1934 following a dispute. He argued that blacks should make segregated schools and other institutions serve them even as they struggled to eliminate the racism that had created them. This pragmatic approach to segregation did not appeal to American civil rights leaders. Nor did his view that Africans, freed from their colonial status, should help determine the world's destiny. Du Bois returned to the NAACP in 1944 after a ten-year absence. In 1948, however, he was forced to resign. His association with the cause of world peace and his expressed admiration for the USSR made him a liability to the organization in a time of anti-Communist hysteria. His articulate condemnation of racial oppression at home and abroad was also seen as anti-American.
A pariah in many quarters of the black community throughout the 1950s, Du Bois spent his last years in virtual exile. However, he lived to see advances in racial relations in the United States. He also witnessed the coming of independence—which he had helped make possible—to much of Africa. At the age of 93, Du Bois joined the U.S. Communist Party. He then renounced his U.S. citizenship and became (1963) a citizen of the West African nation of Ghana. He was at work on a monumental study of African culture, the Encyclopedia Africana, at the time of his death. Du Bois's principal scholarly works include The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870 (1896), The Philadelphia Negro (1899), and Black Reconstruction in America (1935). His Autobiography appeared in 1957.
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One way that Booker T. Washington was similar to W.E.B. Du Bois is that both leaders valued the importance of education as a critical tool for empowering African Americans and advancing their quest for equality. In doc A, it states that "Washington finally gained the support of his family in 1872 to attend Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, a school of higher learning in Virginia for blacks. While attending, he worked as a janitor which allowed him close contact with the whites running the school."
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