Ida B. Wells-Barnett & W.E.B . DuBois

1. Ida B. Wells-Barnett & W.E.B . DuBois The antithesis of Booker T. Washington

2. Ida B. Wells-Barnett • Became an emancipated minor when her parents died. • Cared for siblings, and grew up in Mississippi. • Became a teacher at 14 and developed an interest in Race issues as well as Gender issues.

3. The train… • Traveled frequently creating anti-lynching awareness. • Thrown off a moving train in 1877. • Sued the RR company and won $500. • Lost in Supreme court. • Sued on the basis of Civil Rights.

4. The Newspapers. • She wrote on many papers, but held the same anti-lynching/equality passion she always had. • She helped found the NAACP. • She opted to not participate in their activities as they were not radical enough. • She died in Chicago in 1931.

5. W.E.B DuBois • Labeled as a "radical," he was dismissed by his political opponents that believed he was too radical to create the changes that were needed. • Became a teacher and eventually taught Sociology at Atlanta University. • This qualified him uniquely to understand racism from a scientific level

6. DuBois’ Philosophy • Talented 10th • Later ideas • 1. Inaugurate the opening of Black officer training schools. • 2. Bring forth legal action against lynchers. • 3. Set up a federal work plan for returning veterans.

7. DuBois realized that for Africans could be free anywhere, they must be free everywhere. • This brought his into a conflict with Garvey.

8. His change in philosophy. • His “educate and irritate” philosophy didn’t work. • He developed a belief in communism after the Russian Revolution on 1917. • Marx and Engles philosophies are based on equality of all separate from race, gender or age. • DuBois saw “economic poverty” a factor of capitalism and couldn’t be removed from the American system.