The different methods Booker Taliaferro Washington and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois used to try and obtain racial equality reminds me of the Aesop's Fable - The Hare and the Tortoise: A hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing his assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; …showed first 75 words of 1137 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1137 total…en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T_Washington W.E.B. DuBois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved on March 16, 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_dubois Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech. Retrieved on March 16, 2006. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/ W.E.B. DuBois - My Character. Retrieved on March 16, 2006. http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~Iridener/DSS/DuBois/DUBOISP3.HTML Two Opposing Views. Retrieved on March 16, 2006. http://t3.preservice.org/T0301151/aa2opsview.html