W.E.B Dubois’s immediate approach to racial equality would be more effective during the Reconstruction Era because his plan allowed for the liberation of black people to get a formal education, unlike in Booker T. Washington’s moderate approach. Booker T. Washington, born into slavery, was the product of a enslaved black women and a white man. At an early age, Booker T. Washington was thrusted into a life of labor and hard work. Although Washington never attended an actual school as an adolescent, when he wasn’t working he put effort into self education. As an adult he went on to get a college education and eventually founded Tuskegee University, a school for colored people that specialized mainly in trades. In his Atlanta Compromise speech Washington states “We shall prosper as we learn to dignify