Du Bois judged King’s nonviolence incomplete without economic program

Evidence

But Du Bois had soured on King, deciding in late 1959 that he was not the American Gandhi after all. “Gandhi submitted [to nonviolence], but he also followed a positive [economic] program to offset his negative refusal to use violence,” Du Bois said. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 940

Categorization

• XREF: Du Bois’s criticism of nonviolence as purely negative fits the reader’s goal of testing Kendi’s policy-first scheme — Du Bois frames King’s lack of a positive economic program as the gap, i.e., a policy/economics critique rather than an ideas-only one.