Chapter 17 Section 3 Critical Thinking #5

5. Why did W. E. B. Du Bois oppose Booker T. Washington’s Views on racial discrimination?
W. E. B. Du Bois opposed Booker T. Washington’s view on racial discrimination Washington was blaming African Americans for their own poverty and urging them to accept racial discrimination. Bois was opposed to this because he did not like that fact that Washington did not think that African Americans could improve and or get rid of the discrimination against them. Bois also felt that Washington thought that African Americans should not have equal and non segregated schools with the whites and that African Americans should not have the right to vote. Bois did not agree with this one bit, he felt that African Americans were being treated unjustly and were not bring poverty upon themselves. He also thought that African Americans should have the right to vote and that they are just as equal in brain power as whites. (pg. 531)