Washington, Du Bois, and Douglas had been expressing their ideas about the civil rights of the blacks. However, they all have different direction. Washington was willing to compromise while Douglas and Du Bois were eager to earn the right to vote and let their voice heard. They believe that the rich people who have most of the control were the roots of the problems, and I totally agree with them. The wealthy people had more responsibility for suppressing the slaves and causing the conflicts between the races. Most slaves were owned by the wealthy ones; 80% of the southerners had no slaves. After the Civil War, the blacks were still subordinate to the whites who still treated them like slaves. Never had they thought about being socially or politically equal to the blacks. Therefore, the wealthy people suppressed the African American horribly: hanging them, or even massacres. Due to their own fear of the black revenge, the white people denied the requests of any equalities. They were accountable for the whole movements.
Remember that the theory about the wealthy being responsible for the separation of white and black comes from a man named Howard Zinn who is a 'revisionist historian.' The term means that he studied history but did not accept some of the standard explanations for the incidents about which he learned.
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