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This stance was contrary to what many blacks from the North envisioned.

Du Bois wanted blacks to have the same " classical " liberal arts education as whites did, along with voting rights and civic equality.

He believed that an elite he called the Talented Tenth would advance to lead the race to a wider variety of occupations.

The source of division between Du Bois and Washington was generated by the differences in how African Americans were treated in the North versus the South.

Many in the North felt that they were being ' led ', and authoritatively spoken for, by a Southern accommodationist imposed on them primarily by Southern whites.

" Furthermore, historian Clarence E. Walker said, " Free black people were ' matter out of place '.

Their emancipation was an affront to southern white freedom.

Booker T. Washington did not understand that his program was perceived as subversive of a natural order in which black people were to remain forever subordinate or unfree.

" Both men sought to define the best means to improve the conditions of the post-Civil War African-American community through education.