Washington is known for his speech at the Atlanta Exposition. In this particular speech, Booker T called on whites to provide industrial and agricultural education and jobs for blacks. In exchange, African-Americans will stop demanding civil rights and social equality. The message he conveyed to blacks was that social equality and politics were not really more important immediate goals than economic independence and respectability. Washington believed that if blacks gained a foothold in the economy and also proved how useful they can be to whites, then they would achieve social equality and civil rights, as they would ultimately be granted to them in the long run. African Americans were exhorted and encouraged to work as skilled artisans, farmers, manual laborers, and domestic servants to show whites that not all African Americans were “liars and chicken thieves.” Booker T. Washington's philosophy was to accommodate the oppression of people. Whites. He advised African Americans to trust the paternalism of Southern whites and accept white supremacy. He also emphasized the mutual interdependence of whites and African Americans in the South, but they say they believed they maintained their social separation; “In all that is purely social we may be as separate as fingers, but united as the hand in all that is essential to mutual progress.” Washington advised African Americans to continue saving, working hard, purchasing property, receiving a useful education, and, above all, remaining in the South. By obeying such orders, Washington believed that blacks would eventually be able to obtain full citizenship rights. White... middle of paper... illusion, Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois had the same dream for African Americans which was mainly citizenship but their way of achieving it differed from each other. Because of the focus on the immediate goals of Washington's economic approach, whites did not discover that it provided for the full acceptance and transformation of blacks in American life. He believes that black people had to start so small, work their way up, and gradually rise to power, positions, and responsibilities before they could now become citizens. Dubois clearly understood Washington's agenda but believed it was not the solution to the racial problem. He continued to believe that African Americans should study the liberal arts and enjoy the same rights as whites. Dubois believed that black people should not sacrifice their constitutional rights to finally obtain an already guaranteed status..