Parallel Structure

• Many of the African American leaders differed in their ideas on how the Negro reached its success and complied with what was given to him.
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  Even after the Negroes had suffered through arduous tasks when they attempted to grasp freedom, they were told that these rights should have been surrendered and they should have been conformed with themselves being inferior citizens to the white men.
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  To them this was a sign of weakness for the Negro, and vulnerability to the white race’s continuous prejudice and discrimination.
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  Mr. Washington believed that a Negro’s success and advancement in society resulted from the Industrial Training like that of Tuskegee.
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  Both the North and the South tried to compromise the accepted fact that the African American was their equal.
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  Du Bois believed that Washington’s ideals went against the needed urgency for the African American’s fight for a voice in the ballot.
• One can infer from this that Du Bois believed some of the goals that Mr. Washington preached and advocated for, did not get the African American the reasonable rights as citizens.

Original Blogger from : Chapter 3 "Souls of Black Folk" http://amycarrillo.blogspot.com/2008/11/ch-3-du-bois-souls-of-black-folk-lit.html