Answer: A distinct status of civil inferiority has been created.
African American leaders Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois disagreed on the way equality should be pursued between blacks and whites. Booker T. Washington believed that equality needed to be gained slowly, and by making compromises. This attitude was named the "Atlanta Compromise" by W. E. B. Du Bois. The compromise consisted on tolerating discrimination, not seeking civil rights and enduring segregation in exchange for education and due process in law.
W. E. B. DuBois believed this attitude only reinforced stereotypes of African Americans as submissive, inferior and apologetic. He believed that by not insisting on civil rights, a status of civil inferiority had been created, and that this was a significant obstacle for equality.
