“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
-W.E.B. DuBois
WEB DuBois was in effect a somewhat bitter enemy of Booker T Washington (see previous post). Washington's contemporary, DuBois emphasized the need for activism, the need to demand visibility and respect. One of the founders of the NAACP, DuBois encouraged academic (he had a PhD himself) schooling for higher level jobs rather than vocational learning to keep blacks relegated to the lower rungs of socioeconomic status.
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