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 …showed first 75 words of 312 total…

…showed last 75 words of 312 total…of the nineteenth century and in the beginning of the twentieth century, black poverty and discrimination were both alive and well. But two great African American leaders, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, put forth their ideas on how to rid society of this evil. From their own ideas on how to bring education to the black race and raise them up on the social ladder, to public movements they participated in.