How Did Booker T. Washington Become Racial Discrimination?

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, racial discrimination was formalized in a set of laws that provided for the segregation and disenfranchisement of the black population. There was the policy of ‘separate but equal’ but in practicing for Black Americans, separate hardly ever meant equal. The black population was treated totally differently from the white population. African-Americans who transgressed the law, or who simply failed to show adequate deference to whites, could face deadly consequences. One study compiled by the NAACP reported 3,224 killing of African-Americans between 1889 and 1919.
In dealing with the struggle for equality and also in search of more respect from Whites, African-Americans responded in a number of ways. Those who could afford to do so moved in the Great Migration to northern and western cities. Though they escaped formal segregation in the South, they often encountered other forms of racial discrimination. This brings two ideas. The first idea of southern-born Booker T. Washington, a former slave and America’s foremost black
Washington, born a slave in 1858, grew up in Virginia and became a strong leader in the African American Community He was the author of an autobiography—Up From Slavery. Washington believed Blacks should concentrate on education and job training to improve their economic status and by so doing the economic success would earn the respect of Whites and equality for Blacks working within the White system. Washington felt that blacks could not be a in a position to perk up their status until their communities reached a point of improvement that made equality indisputable. He asked blacks to focus on education and financial advancement as well as maintaining close community ties. The black community would advance out of its poor quality into what could not be denied as equals since the black community would be full of learned such doctors, lawyers, architects, teachers, businessmen and other