Diversity and Equity

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This paper examines how novelist, W.E.B. DuBois, and female suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, have managed to bring to light the underlying problem that is still at the basis of gender and racial inequality. It discusses how that underlying problem is the apparently hard-to-overcome problem of white men assuming and using all their power to maintain, superiority over anything or anyone other than white men. It analyzes their fights and the parallels between what they espoused in their fights for racial and gender equality.

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"There are, of course, similarities in the message, and those similarities are more pronounced between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and W.E.B. DuBois than between Stanton and DuBois predecessor and sometime mentor, Booker T. Washington. First, of course, Washington was the son of a slave, born into slavery himself. DuBois was the son of a freeman, born free in Massachusetts after the Civil War, and able to avail himself of an excellent "white man's" education, with degrees from Fisk University, Harvard University (where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1895) and the University of Berlin."

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