Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups.
W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
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