Many great leaders in the fight for equal rights shared many similar views across the issue of inequality for African-Americans. Authors and speakers expressed this alike outlook in different ways in different literature pieces. Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington all shared a similar perspective on the huge underlying issue of racism. Mark Twain expressed his views on racism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Frederick Douglass conveyed his perspective on racism in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Written by Himself, W.E.B. Du Bois demonstrated his point of view on racism in Of Our Spiritual Strivings, a chapter from The Souls of Black Folk, and Booker T. Washington…show more content… In this narrative, Frederick talked about how he was considered less than his owner. Frederick spoke about how he was not allowed to read or write because he was African-American and a slave. He also said that his owner stated, “a nigger should know nothing but to obey his master,” showing how he shouldn’t know anything because he was African-American. Frederick later then became a free slave, demonstrating in his narrative how, similar to Twain, how racism lead to the demeaning of African-Americans even though he became and was equal to…show more content… Du Bois describes how being a “poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships,” and how African-Americans are the poor race. Du Bois speaks how African-Americans are left to feel “weight of his ignorance” amongst the whites in the world they know. Du Bois states how getting through this shadow is what would bring African-Americans from “poverty and ignorance,” and getting rid of poverty and ignorance is what would bring African-Americans from the shadow. Du Bois with this view describes how through economic and intellectual equality to whites, similar to Frederick and Twain, African-Americans were equal to
