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While Booker T. Washington was happy with any sort of progress at first, W. E. B. Du Bois was carrying more of a "Go Big or Go Home" philosophy. Let's learn more about these two civil rights pioneers, and their ideas on the path to equality.
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- 00:03
Not everyone was crazy about booker t washington spearheading
- 00:08
the anti Booker's was W. E. B. Dubois another scholarly african-american [Dubois appears]
- 00:13
raised in the north but mostly educated in the south while Booker T was on the
- 00:17
rise Dubois was living low as a teacher in the Jim Crow South well Dubois went
- 00:22
from segregated school to segregated school everywhere he saw the poverty of
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- 00:27
black southerners and he was not down with it would have been kind of messed [Black men sitting on ground]
- 00:31
up if you were everywhere Dubois saw Jim Crow putting people in Chains [Man surrounded by metal chains]
- 00:36
politically socially psychologically and legally on the legal front those chains
- 00:42
were literal Dubois didn't disagree with everything Washington said like
- 00:46
Booker T Dubois wasn't a fan of lazy or criminal people and he saw moolah as the
- 00:50
path to freedom but their agreement came to a screeching halt right about there [Cars crash into each other]
- 00:54
Dubois thought that without the vote equal access to professional
- 00:58
opportunities and equal protection under the law progress just wasn't going to [Judge bangs gavel]
- 01:03
happen who voice thought Washington's ideas were setting up the black race to
- 01:08
fail Dubois thought that no matter how much black people tried to prove [Cake appears on a table]
- 01:12
themselves whites were always going to not be into the whole equality thing and
- 01:16
Dubois was right sorry Booker you still love you though he in Washington
- 01:21
disagreed over the past the progress but in the end both believe the road could [Dubois and Washington driving steam roller]
- 01:24
be paved what they didn't see was that the real problem Jim Crow had was with
- 01:28
success no matter how African Americans got their whites would be upset and gets [African American celebrating and white man appears with fire]
- 01:33
violent and burned things if blacks reach success when it comes to the
- 01:37
african-american experience calling America the land of opportunity seems a
- 01:41
thought is accurate is calling tobey maguire a more attractive spiderman than [Spidermen appear]
- 01:44
Andrew Garfield any time a black family started to make it they could be sure
- 01:48
there'd be an angry white mob on the prowl ready to harrahs intimidate and [White mob shouting]
- 01:53
terrorize being successful was about as suicidal as hiking mountain doom after [Man climbing mount doom]
- 01:57
frodo destroyed that ring remember well towards the end of his life Booker T
- 02:01
actually changed his tune a bit what pushed Washington over the edge a famous
- 02:05
director DW Griffith famously racist film The Birth of a Nation like many
- 02:11
super racist things back then this movie was a huge popular hit with [People watching movie at theater]
- 02:15
the white majority in this movie blacks are shown as villains brutes savages
- 02:20
buffoons and cowards Oh in a Klansman is the hero no joke seriously hugely [Klu Klux Klan man appears]
- 02:25
popular only like E.T level popular so yeah it's not hard to see why Birth of a
- 02:29
Nation pushed Booker T over the edge he joined many black leaders and pointing [Birth of a Nation pushes Booker over cliff edge]
- 02:33
out everything that was awful about the film and with a movie with that many
- 02:37
flaws pointing out every one of them was a real commitment nobody knows whether
- 02:41
this film made Washington's second-guessed of philosophies he'd been
- 02:44
preaching his whole life but well did he feel like he'd ever understood the true
- 02:48
depth of racism or was he disappointed that his people couldn't win the respect
- 02:52
of white society no probably a bit of both because Washington was a complex guy
- 02:57
in his final year of life Booker T may have looked to the new generation of [Man walking]
- 03:00
black activists for better answers the boys certainly had one hopefully DB was
- 03:06
nice enough not to say I told you so [Dubois and Washing ton appear together]
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