The Historical Factors That Shaped Web Dubois Quest For...

Imagine growing up in the early; late twentieth century, facing rural living, poor education, and unequal rights. While living in the twentieth century, rural areas contained three fourth quarters of African Americans were there they worked as farmers. While living in these poor conditions, most African Americans children did not have the proper education to even be considered literate. African Americans for years faced unequal rights, in the school systems, work force and everyday life. The Historical factors that shaped WEB Dubois quest for Liberal Arts education and Booker T. Washington s acceptance of technical training. W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington contradictory views with one objective and problem for African Americans were†¦show more content†¦Dubois influenced African Americans to set a goal to reach a liberal arts education. Dubois believed that African Americans only earned their rights through education, not through the social sciences. The education of African Americans served purposes to the bettering of the African race and to lessen the knowledge about African Americans in the white race. Through education, Dubois wanted to eliminate ignorance about African American people and educate the world about the contributions to society that African American people could potentially make. It was these reasons stated above, that were expressed into social factors and other reasons which led Dubois to becoming one of the leading activists and revolutionary thinkers of his time, in particular in the area of contradicting politics and academic research. Booker T Washington was born a slave in the late 1800s in the southern part of Virginia, where those experiences shaped and affected Washington as the individual he became and later on a national leader in the African American community. Washington was a less privileged man who worked his way through college at Hampton Institute in order to pay for his tuition, room and board. He graduated from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1872 and would afterwards spend the rest of his life in the South, attempting to lead his people effectively as an educator and social politician. During his career as a teacher and political