W.E.B on B.T.W (chapter 3)

I feel as though all of chapter three is Dubois proving this point.
“Mr. Washington represents in negro thought the old attitude of adjustment and submission…” (246)

Dubois wants to challenge the educational rule by whites to gain upper class status for blacks in the future instead of trying to earn “dollars” at the lower levels just to survive. Dubois names prominent black leaders who challenged the status quo like Fredrick Douglass, “Elliot, Bruce, Langston.” With these figures, blacks were closing the gap on being able to vote. But because of the submission of Washington whites do not feel obligated to listen to these men. Instead they will listen to Washington who sides with class distinction. Dubois also goes on to say that because of Washington’s appeasement African Americans have had three things occur.

“1. The disfranchisement of the Negro.
2. The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro.
3. The steady Withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of the Negro.” (247)

Dubois even tells the black men of America to not follow B.T.W.
“Oppose a part of the work of their greatest leader” (252).