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As a sharecropper, I agree with W.E.B. DuBois. Dubois believed that proper education, political, and social knowledge and actions would help save Black people from oppression and help fight for equality and civil rights. He believed that equal treatment for Black people would only come as result of protest and movements but also higher education. (Sall, D., & Khan, S. (2017)

DuBois was heavily involved with NAACP a movement created to ensure Black people were treated fairly and to protest on their behalf. The higher the education DuBois believed would increase the status of blacks and help fight against unfair treatment and rights.

Booker T. Washington had a different approach he believed blacks should strive at learning and being the best at the industrial, farming and economic skills and education. Washington believed being rebellious and fighting for equality would further hurt the race of African Americans instead of help move them forward. He believed a hard work ethic and being the smartest on the job would improve the equality and segregation of Blacks. His method was more passive, and he preferred to just exist within the Whites instead of challenging them to be fair (Washington, B. T. (2016)

I agree with DuBois because how is it fair for me a sharecropper to be born into slavery, gain freedom and still struggle and have numerous disadvantages of having something of my own. I work all day in the fields to have to share my crop or pay a ridiculous fee to rent land where my people have been raped, beaten, starved, or killed. I struggle to provide for my family or afford my children opportunity for higher education because I am limited in resources and not allow the same as Whites. I believe in being treated fairly and equally and I'm willingly to risk protesting and fight for what's right and fair. Knowledge is power, W.E.B. DuBois understood that and wanted people who looked like him to gain as much of it as possible.