W. E. B Dubois Analysis

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W.E.B DuBois

During the 1890s African Americans civil rights were limited and in a way forcefully taken away. For Example the right to vote, political power as well as higher education as Dubois states were the 3 things “ Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up…”. Therefore I strongly disagree with Mr. Washington because at that time AA were being deprived of their 13th ,14th and 15th amendment. They were charged and convicted without due process. And when convicted they would use the stupidest reasons. And were African Americans rights equallaly protected as white men I don’t think so. Mr. Washington believes that they should be grateful for being even able to have any privileges when before they would have nothing. My Question is how is it a privilege to be given your own natural rights in which you were entitled to at birth. As Dubois quotes a small part of the Declaration of Independence in where she practically says we fail to forget it.
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Wells-Barnett”. Wells goes about how southerners (whites) were envious, jealous and fearful of successful people of color. This is evident with the murder of Ebenzer Fowler for “writing a note to a white woman”. Was it justified? No but because he was black and wealthy a group of whites decided to shoot him. And many cases where an African American male was convicted and Lynched for “rape” was common in the south. Wells States “the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning.” And with great honesty its true whites have sinned deeply in every aspect you can think of when it came to treating others of color. The shooting, Lynching, slavery, racism, and cruelty of the in human treating whites would put upon people of