Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois were the true initiators of the civil rights movement, which lasted until the 1960's. Washington was born in 1857 into slavery. His slave master's wife thought he was very smart and she began to tutor him. After slavery was abolished, he attended a university on a scholarship. He then went on to become a teacher and then a university professor at Tuskegee University. W.E.B. Dubois, on the other hand, was born a free man and attended Fisk University. After graduating from Fisk he went to Harvard and became the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard. Dubois also wrote a book entitled The Souls of Black Folk in 1905. Both men were well educated and wanted the African American race to be successful. Although they were both fighting, for the same cause they had different paths to achieving this goal.…
