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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the African-American leaders’ views on race relations. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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American cultural landscape only in the legal sense. Blacks were still being treated as second-class citizens, and the inequities, in terms of education, socioeconomic status, and political representation, were
becoming more pronounced. A group of African-American intellectuals, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and Monroe Trotter, became, each in his own way, articulate spokesmen for the problems still plaguing
their race. However, their philosophies stood in stark contrast to each other, and the attitudes forged by this trio of activists paved the divergent paths that American racial relations
took during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Booker Taliaferro Washington, the founder and first president of Alabamas Tuskegee Institute, was
born into slavery in 1856. He was a staunch believer in education as a way toward equalizing racial relations, but he maintained that the art of "accommodation" would accomplish
more in the long term than the demands his African-American contemporaries were making for total social equality (Frost 102). Washington was a conservative thinker who did not feel African
Americans could acquire equal rights until they were assimilated only gradually into the social mainstream (Wray 93). The philosophy he articulated has been described as "hands across the color line"
(Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential
to mutual progress" (Washington 514-515). In a September 1895 speech dubbed the "Atlanta Compromise," Washington described his stance on race relations and touched a chord of outrage within the
liberal African-American establishment that still resonates within the civil rights activists of the twenty-first century. Washington encouraged his fellow blacks to, "Cast down your bucket where you
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