During the progressive era,W.E.B.Du Bois asserted all of the following EXCEPT that
A) Booker T. Washington's ideas were unnecessarily limiting to blacks.
B) talented blacks should accept nothing less than a full university education.
C) blacks should fight for immediate civil rights.
D) seeking legal challenges to civil injustice through white-dominated courts was a pointless exercise.
E) blacks should aspire to the professions.

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During the progressive era, W.E.B. Du Bois asserted that Booker T. Washington's ideas were unnecessarily limiting to blacks, talented blacks should accept nothing less than a full university education, blacks should fight for immediate civil rights, and blacks should aspire to the professions. However, he did not assert that seeking legal challenges to civil injustice through white-dominated courts was a pointless exercise. In fact, Du Bois believed that legal challenges were an important strategy for promoting civil rights and used his own legal training to challenge Jim Crow laws in court.

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