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This, he said, would win the respect of whites and lead to African Americans being fully accepted as citizens and integrated into all strata of society. W.E.B. Du Bois, a towering black intellectual, scholar and political thinker (1868-1963) said no--Washington's strategy would serve only to perpetuate white oppression. Du Bois advocated political action and a civil rights agenda (he helped found the NAACP).
1 W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868â1919 (1993). 2  Lewis, David Levering. 3  W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919â1963 (2000). 4  Marable, Manning.