Frederick Douglas's House of Civil Pain

Douglas, Washington, and Dubois all have varying ideas about suffrage and civil rights; Washington wanted to compromise and give up the fight for civil equality in order to get the black man into the work force. Dubois takes Washington's proposed compromise and claims that any race or civilization that things in that manner has no pride, and does not deserve to grow and evolve in the world. The concept of the wealthy class keeping and promoting racial tension to me does not seem entirely correct because yes the upper class placed racial tension in their society, but that tension was so deeply rooted in the society that all sides of the racial and economic spectrum felt the same way. So in reality, the average white person was the one who promoted the most tension between the races.