Du Bois and Joy Castro, they varied on where they focused on striving for formal education. For W.E.B. Du Bois, the beginnings of his journey took place in Massachusetts. However, he traveled south and became a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Residing in the south as an African-American was frowned upon from the perspective of society at the time. W.E.B. Du Bois' approach to formal education for the most of his life took place in the heavily racial segregated south, soon after the Civil War. His journeys later took place as a teacher in a school in a small black community of Alexandria, Tennessee, and then at Atlanta University. His journey took place during the 1890's-1910's, which, is known to be a time where African-American were socially oppressed. He intended to give back formal education to other Africa-American boys in the south through teaching in impoverished
Du Bois and Joy Castro, they varied on where they focused on striving for formal education. For W.E.B. Du Bois, the beginnings of his journey took place in Massachusetts. However, he traveled south and became a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Residing in the south as an African-American was frowned upon from the perspective of society at the time. W.E.B. Du Bois' approach to formal education for the most of his life took place in the heavily racial segregated south, soon after the Civil War. His journeys later took place as a teacher in a school in a small black community of Alexandria, Tennessee, and then at Atlanta University. His journey took place during the 1890's-1910's, which, is known to be a time where African-American were socially oppressed. He intended to give back formal education to other Africa-American boys in the south through teaching in impoverished