Du Bois & Washington on Education

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A 3 page essay that discusses the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, two of the most renowned leaders of Black Americans in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, on education for Black Americans. Washington emphasized general education and vocational/industrial studies and Du Bois favored having higher education being made more accessible to the Black intellectual elite, a group whom he referred to as “Talented Tenth.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.