Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,3 (B), University of Bayreuth (Language and Literature Sciences), course: Segregation, language: English, abstract: Theodore Vincent said "In Black American history there are two personal feuds which stand out beyond all others W. E. B. Du Bois vs. Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois vs. Marcus Garvey" 1 . Reason enough to examine at least one of these two conflicts, as they are an important factor of Black history, because they do not show united Blacks that fight side by side for their rights, but Blacks that forget that they actually fight on the same side over a personal conflict. I will first give the history of the conflict, befo re analyzing some of the articles that were written in this conflict and that mirror the history and briefly show the main reasons for it.