What was web dubois known for?

Answer 1

WEB DuBois was a counter-point to Booker T. Washington, who felt that African-Americans needed to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps." DuBois believed (correctly) that African-Americans would need help to overcome the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow.

Answer 2

W.E.B. Du Bois is the 'model' agitator, 'revolutionary.' 'mover & shaker,' a man passionate abut his beliefs and unafraid to express them whereever they may take him. W.E.B. Du Bois was, and this is not a 'judgement call,' a fighter an arguer a man who was not about to settle for a safe cozy argument. W.E.B. Du Boic used his voice & his writing and instead of waiting for magazines to publish his articles he set out to publish his own magazine, 'Crisis' which Du Bois used to voice his displeasure with any measure that served to retard the process of Civil Rights. Du Bois wanted equal Rights Now, and wasn't in favor of waiting for the 'establishment' to get around to treating negroes with respect.

"""After graduating in 1885 Du Bois spent two years at the University of Berlin before returning to the United States. Du Bois now had a strong interest in African American history and went to Harvard University to work on his dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade. In 1895 Du Bois became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard.

In 1897 Du Bois began teaching economics and history at Atlanta University and in 1903 published his ground-breaking The Souls of Black Folks. This included an attack on Booker T. Washington for not doing more in the campaign for African American civil rights. Du Bois own solution to this problem was to form the Niagara Movement in 1905. The group drew up a plan for aggressive action and demanded: manhood suffrage, equal economic and educational opportunities, an end to segregation and full civil rights.

The Niagara Movement had little impact on influencing those in power and in February, 1909, Du Bois joined with other campaigners for African American civil rights to form the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). Other members included Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Josephine Ruffin, Mary Talbert, Mary Church Terrell, Inez Milholland, Jane Addams, Mary McLeod Bethune, George Henry White, Charles Edward Russell, John Dewey, William Dean Howells, Charles Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Ray Stannard Baker, Fanny Garrison Villard, Oswald Garrison Villard and Ida Wells-Barnett.

In 1910 Du Bois returned to his attack on Booker T. Washington and his Tuskegee Institute movement and along with twenty-two other prominent African Americans signed a statement claiming: "We are compelled to point out that Mr. Washington's large financial responsibilities have made him dependent on the rich charitable public and that, for this reason, he has for years been compelled to tell, not the whole truth, but that part of it which certain powerful interests in America wish to appear as the whole truth."

The NAACP started its own magazine, Crisis, in November, 1910. The magazine was edited by Du Bois and contributors to the first issue included Oswald Garrison Villard and Charles Edward Russell. The magazine soon built up a large readership amongst black people and white sympathizers. By 1919 Crisis was selling 100,000 copies a month.

In Crisis Du Bois campaigned against lynching, Jim Crow laws, sexual inequality. He told his readers in October, 1911, that "every argument for ***** suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage." In 1912 he supported Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party candidate for president. He particularly admired the way that Debs refused to address segregated audiences in the South. ""

Answer 3

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