Why did W.EB Du Bois oppose Booker T. Washington's views on racial discrimination?
W.E.B opposed Booker because W.E.B was angered that Roosevelt invited him to dinner as a symbol of blacks and whites sharing together because Booker viewed black poverty as being blamed on blacks and thought that discrimination was something that should just be accepted(p. 531). W.E.B Du Bois saw that blacks were just a worthy as whites and that they deserved the same rights and that discriminating against them was wrong and a deep injustice. He wanted to fight and tried very hard to make black rights an important part of the Progressive movement, even though it still got very little support outside of its group members.
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