African Americans responded to discrimination and prejudice in different ways. Some refused to put up with it. One black leader, W.

African Americans responded to discrimination and prejudice in different ways. Some refused to put up with it. One black leader, W.E.B. Du Bois, insisted that African Americans should not ask white Americans for their rights, but demand it of them. Other leaders took the opposite approach. For example, Booker T. Washington urged his fellow blacks to accept segregation for the time being. If they were patient, he argued, eventually their hard work and clean living would prove to whites that blacks were deserving of better treatment and equal citizenship. What made WEB Du Bois a better leader than Booker T Washington