Ever since African Americans traveled from their homeland over to America, they have faced many hardships amongst their people. One of the main difficulties that they have faced is discrimination. The African Americans originally came to America as slaves and pretty much nothing more. Most of the white population simply wanted it to stay that way. But it was only through the African Americans coming together as a people, that they were able to overcome all of the injustice. Booker T. Washington had a plan for how to handle what they faced. Then there was many other African American after him that disagreed with his plans and came up with their own.
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Booker T. Washington had a somewhat simple way to deal with what his people were faced with. He first started with the Tuskegee Institute, which emphasized industrial training as a means to self-respect and economic independence for the African American people. He gave many lectures in the interests of his work; he was considered one of the best public speakers of his time. In 1895, in Atlanta, GA, he made a controversial speech on the African American's place in American society. In this speech he stated that it was "foolish for blacks to agitate for social equality before they had attained economic equality." His speech was very appealing to the white people, because they agreed with the way he thought blacks should be placed in society. This ended up giving him financial support for the Tuskegee Institute. He told the African American people to use caution and restraint when dealing the white people. He knew what white people were capable of, and probably going to do, so he figured why not try and prevent what is inevitable. He told blacks to forget about social and political issues, and focus more on education and industrial working. He concentrated more on commercial issues, and chose to not think about civil rights. He was basically doing exactly what all white people wanted the African Americans to do at the time.
Booker T. Washington: "An All American Educator" There are people whose abilities, determination and energy take them far past any limitations life tries to place on them. Booker T. Washington was one of those people. He overcame a childhood of slavery and illiteracy to become the most prominent e...
To serve the cause of human freedom, a person has to be brave, a leader, patient and unselfish. Throughout history many people have fought for what they believed in to gain freedom for their people. One man who did this is Booker T. Washington. Washington was an African American advocate who wan...
Booker T. Washington was born in Virginia in 1856. Even though he was born into slavery, he received a teaching degree from a freedman's school in Hampton, Virginia. In 1881 he founded what is now known as Tuskegee University. Booker T. Washington's major focus was to educate African Americans in ag...
Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington was born on April 5,1856 in Franklin County, Virginia. ... Booker had been blessed with an intact family, with one exception of having a white father who never contributed to his life and whose identity Washington never acknowledged. ... Booker T. ... Having a first hand struggle with freedom, social change was a ground floor philosophy to Booker. ...
Booker T. Washington The end of the Civil War brought a time known as the Reconstruction. During this time, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. The newly freed slaves needed jobs, housing, and education in order to enter society, but the rejection of th...
Booker T. Washington was born a slave on a tobacco farm in Hales Ford, Virginia on April 5, 1856. Booker T. was a great public speaker who mainly spoke about blacks earning the white man's respect rather than keep fighting for freedom. W.E.B. DuBois on the other hand was born in Great Barrington, M...
The Distinctly Different Viewpoints of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. ... Two of these forward-looking men were Booker T. ... Despite this, Booker T. ... Rather, it would take much time and hard work to gain the respect of whites and complete equality, both socially and economically, for all.23 As the foremost champion of black education and equality, Booker T. ...
Parallel to the disagreements of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the civil rights movements of the 1960's, African American leaders W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington had different strategies to move towards African American progress. Du Bois illustrates his disagreements towards Wa...
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