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What is the difference between Eurocentricism and Afrocentricism? Is it merely four words or are the thoughts and ideas, and notions of the race and origin original zed between both? The work of past leaders like Booker T. Washington and W.E. B. Dubois is restricted and regional in a way, but Edward Wilmot Blyden and Marcus Garvey were more on a universal point, covering the entire race and the entire racial problems of not only America but our entire world. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois placed emphasis more on materialistic advancements of Black America. Blyden's idea's and speeches urging a return to Africa and the re-creation of an African Nation, thus propelling Garvey into his political views. There is a line of black leaders that inherited his ideas, directly or indirectly, but by far the standout of Garvey’s ways brought forth a comparable scheme to Blyden’s “Africa for Africans” type view. When there was desegregation in America, the general trend of African-American political thought had focused on the equality and opportunity of the Black Man wi