Washington's approach to this issue was better. I feel that Du Bois approach did not work because no one wants to admit they were wrong especially when they don't believe they are. Asking southerners to help heal the wounds they have created was never going to work because they felt they weren't in the wrong. The more under the wraps private approach that Washington worked much better because he was trying to slowly engrave the black community in with the white community rather than saying we must have all the same rights as white people. This made white people more likely to accept them because they didn't feel as though they were losing anything.