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Booker T. Washington Versus W. E. B. DuBoise
Booker T. Washington believed that blacks should not push to attain equal civil and political rights with whites. That it was best to concentrate on improving their economic skills and the quality of their character. The burden of improvement resting squarely on the shoulders of the black man. Eventually they would earn the respect and love of the white man, and civil and political rights would be accrued as a matter of course. This was a very non-threatening and popular idea with a lot of whites.
. For two decades Washington established a dominant tone of gradualism and accommodationism among blacks, only to find in the latter half of this period
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