progress? What significance did Washington attach to the words separate and mutual? In what ways did Washington's argument appeal to his white audience? Would his speech have been different if he had been addressing a black audience? If so, how and why? To what extent did Washington's speech exemplify the dilemmas of African Americans in the Progressive Era? W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality Many educated African Americans, especially in the North, objected to Booker T. Washington's policy of racial accommodation. In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois attacked Washington's ideas and proposed alternatives that made sense to many black Americans, then and since. One of the organizers of the Niagara Movement and of the National
progress? What significance did Washington attach to the words separate and mutual? In what ways did Washington's argument appeal to his white audience? Would his speech have been different if he had been addressing a black audience? If so, how and why? To what extent did Washington's speech exemplify the dilemmas of African Americans in the Progressive Era? W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality Many educated African Americans, especially in the North, objected to Booker T. Washington's policy of racial accommodation. In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois attacked Washington's ideas and proposed alternatives that made sense to many black Americans, then and since. One of the organizers of the Niagara Movement and of the National