What was Du bois critique of Booker T Washington?

Answer 1

He criticized Washington's passive and cautious ways.

Answer 2

Du Bois thought Washington should promote more direct confrontation against discrimination.

Du Bois thought Washington emphasized economic advancement for African Americans while accepting segregation.

Du Bois thought Washington's strategy accepted white domination.

Answer 3

From Yale University's website:

The years from 1901 to 1903 were years of transition in DuBois' philosophy. DuBois grew to find Washington's program intolerable, as he became more outspoken about racial injustice and began to differ with Washington over the importance of liberal arts education when the latter's emphasis on industrial education drew resources away from black liberal arts colleges. DuBois noted that Washington's accommodating program produced little real gain for the race. Another factor that alienated DuBois from Washington was the fact that Washington and his "Tuskegee Machine"-an intricate, nation-wide web of institutions in the black community that were conducted, dominated, and strongly influenced by Washington-kept a dictatorial control over Negro affairs that stifled honest criticism of his policies and other efforts at Negro advancement. DuBois came to view Washington as a political boss who had too much power and used it ruthlessly to his own advantage. Although DuBois admitted that he was worthy of honor, he believed Washington was a limited and misguided leader.

DuBois launched a well-reasoned, thoughtful, and unequivocal attack on Washington's program in his classic collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. With the publication of this book, DuBois took the leadership in the struggle against Booker T. Washington and headed the radical protest movement for civil rights for Negroes. In The Souls of Black Folk, DuBois took the position that "the Black men of America have a duty to perform; a duty stern and delicate-a forward movement to oppose a part of the work of their greatest leader."

In an essay entitled, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others," DuBois said that Washington's accommodationist program asked blacks to give up political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher education for Negro youth. He believed that Washington's policies had directly or indirectly resulted in three trends: the disfranchisement of the Negro, the legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro, and steady withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of the Negro. DuBois charged that Washington's program tacitly accepted the alleged inferiority of the Negro. Expressing the sentiment of the radical civil rights advocates, DuBois demanded for all black citizens 1) the right to vote, 2) civic equality, and 3) the education of Negro youth according to ability. Generally, DuBois opposed Washington's program because it was narrow in its scope and objectives, devalued the study of the liberal arts, and ignored civil, political, and social injustices and the economic exploitation of the black masses.

Answer 4

Booker T Washington was criticized because people didn't like him enough.

Answer 5

He criticized Washington's passive and cautious ways.