Read the passage below and answer the two questions below it.

Booker or Du Bois?
Two great leaders of the black community in the late 19th and 20th century were W. E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. However, they disagreed on strategies for black social and economic progress. Their opposing ideas, or philosophies, can be found in much of today's discussions over how to end class and racial injustice, what is the role of black leadership, and what do the 'haves' owe the 'have-nots' in the black community.
Booker T. Washington, educator, reformer and the most influential black leader of his time (1856-1915) preached the idea of self-help, racial unity and accommodation. He urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity. He believed in education in the crafts like carpentry, construction, machinist, industrial and farming skills. He also believed individuals needed the cultivation of the virtues of patience, enterprise and thrift. This, he said, would win the respect of everyone including whites. Therefore, after achievement, African Americans will be fully accepted as citizens and integrated into all parts of society.
W. E.B. Du Bois, a towering black intellectual, scholar and political thinker (1868-1963) said no to B. T. Washington's strategy. W. E.B. DuBois believed such acting would serve only to perpetuate, or continue, white oppression. Du Bois advocated political action and a civil rights agenda. Part of that agenda was founding the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In addition, he argued that social change could be accomplished by developing a small group of college-educated blacks he called "the Talented Tenth:"
"The Negro Race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education then, among Negroes, must first of all deal with the "Talented Tenth." It is the problem of developing the best of this race that they may guide the masses away from the contamination and death of the worst." Source: W. E.B. DuBois
At the time, the Washington and Du Bois dispute polarized African American leaders into two wings--the 'conservative' supporters of Washington and his 'radical' critics. The Du Bois philosophy of agitation and protest for civil rights flowed directly into the Civil Rights movement which began to develop in the 1950's and explode in the 1960's. Booker T. today is associated, perhaps unfairly, with the self-help, colorblind, Republican Clarence Thomas.

1) Describe how these leaders ideologies help fight discrimination.
2) Assert which ideology you agree with and why; using sound reasoning and evidence from the text to support your stance