Booker T. Washington's Beliefs

In the period following 1865, the understanding and recognition of being accepted into a newly forming just society was becoming the base on expressing and citing beliefs for others to agree upon in terms of racial theories. Both individual and social groups like Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBoise, Ida B. Wells, and the Ku Klux Klan were expressing what they thought a just society should look like and were in hopes that their actions and theories of these beliefs would assist society toward agreeing upon them and accepting them as their own. Booker T. Washington’s beliefs towards racial equality were expressed during his Atlanta Exposition Speech in 1895. The speech he gave was based on the theory that southern whites and blacks needed each other in order to make their society work to its fullest potential. Booker T. Washington was seen as a man who wanted equal civilization in the southern states. He
They expressed ideas of not needing to deal with problems of people from the outside countries coming into their just society looking to steal jobs, take industrial power from working Americans, and taking over freedoms within a white powered government through physical acts of violence. They had hopes that American people were willing to share these theories of an Americanized home front that would be run and owned by only White Americans. This white’s only society would be a land that would make realizing potential for American culture easier because there would be less of a struggle for jobs and seeking freedom. Through an Americanized government, life would become less distressful, the just society would begin to form from the bottom up through actions that would express a social opinion and people would eventually realize that these social paths were required in order for a white only just society be