How Does Washington Achieve Equality?

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During America in the early 1900s the black race faced discrimination and oppression from their country. After the ending of slavery, they still felt the treatment of their race had been unjust. This causes the start of the civil rights movement where two men decide to lead this movement, in Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois. However, they have very different methods to achieve this equality; where Washington doesn’t really seem to want full equality, but want to keep peace between the black and white races, and Dubois is willing to do whatever is necessary to gain equality. While having conflicting viewpoints on how they should achieve equality, both their audiences are also different; in that Washington addresses the American people, while Dubois seems to focus on African Americans. As they are both large influencers of the civil rights movement they want their race hear their messages. Washington wanted to address both the majority and minority, in both the white and black races. As he hopes to deliver his message to both races. To his white audience he uses an emotional tone to appeal, as he wants them to remember who was there “to nurse by your children, and watch by the sickbed of (their) mothers and fathers”. Hoping this causes them to think about all that black people have done for them, in order to get little back in …show more content…
He uses this metaphor to try and ask people if they can be adaptable in being able to work with each other. He repeats the metaphor trying to instill his message in the people, wanting people to understand that with little change can create huge strides for both races. That allowing African Americans to have more rights is beneficial for everyone. This would create a more peaceful community without violence, even though the races are not considered equal. However Washington states that this would allow both races to live contently in their social