Booker T Washington's Accomplishments

“No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”-Booker T. Washington We should admire Booker T. Washington, an intelligent freed slave who rose above the criticisms of white men through much hard work. A few of his many accomplishments include when he founded the Tuskegee University and he was the first African-American to be invited to the Whitehouse. He was also President Roosevelt and President Taft’s adviser in racial
These countries instead might believe that manual work has no dignity compared to intellectual work. The farmers would leave their jobs in search of more dignified arts, and the community would have little or no food source. It would soon starve all because it did not understand Booker’s truth Think of it like basketball. There were two sisters named Sarah and Jenny McDoodle. While Sarah was at home practicing singing for concerts Jenny was at the gym practicing persistently far basketball games. When Jenny won basketball games she received as much praise as when Sarah did well in concerts. Just like if a farmer produces good crop then he will get as much respect as when a poet writes a good poem. For a more specific example of this quote you could think of the women of World War 2. They knew that they should help their husbands as well as their countries, so they got the manual jobs that their husbands had previously held before they went to war. Some of these jobs include working in factories, offices, on land, and in schools. These women selflessly took on hard work for their spouses and nation. We should honor them and try to do hard work no matter what it may require of