The central issue, for Du Bois, was that Washington’s policies acquiesced to the alleged inferiority of black Americans. Washington, he could not abide Washington’s program. While Du Bois had high admiration and great respect for Booker T. Such an education, to Washington’s mind, was one that could lay the economic foundation for social and political progress for black Americans. He advocated a gradual approach to ending racism, an approach that centered on an education in technical and industrial skills. Washington was, by most accounts, the leading figure in the black community between 18. One way to understand The Souls of Black Folk is as a response to the legacy of an earlier black American leader, Booker T. By drawing on such a range of disciplines, Du Bois is able to offer his readers different lenses for viewing one central problem: the devastating effects that living in segregation had had on the souls and consciousness of black people. The Souls of Black Folk, read as a single work, is a unique admixture of history, social documentary, autobiography and anthropological fieldwork. The book contains a collection of Du Bois’s essays, several of which had been previously published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in the years leading up to the book’s launch. The Souls of Black Folk, arguably Du Bois’s most famous and enduring book, was first published while he was teaching at Atlanta University. Throughout his long life, Du Bois worked tirelessly to combat racism.
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