How Did Booker T Washington Dehumanize Black Americans

After reading Dierenfeild CH1 and watching the video string one way that I immediately noticed the law dehumanizing the black Americans was by the minstrel shows that were aired. These shows were made to make fun of black people. If you were a black person seeing these shows it would be very hurtful and would make them feel like they didn't have any worth in the society. Blackface was very popular at the time and was a technique they used for these shows to make a non-black performer represent a black person by using black makeup to cover there face. They made the characters look very unrealistic with big lips and it was just used to basically make them look like clowns. Another point that stuck out to me while reading was the part on poll
Washington. Booker T. Washington was born on April 5th, 1856. He was born a slave and grew up actually going through all the horrible things that in his future he ended up fighting for. Booker was a very brave man and set out on his own journey to better his life. He ended up leaving his home and walked 500 miles to Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in Virginia. He ended up convincing the people who worked there to let him go to school and took a job as a janitor to help way for his tuition. He was than sponsored by a white man named Samuel C. Armstrong who was a supporter in providing newly freed slaves an education. Booker ended up founding the Tuskgee Institute to promote his belief that blacks should seek economic self reliance first, not political equality.(Dierenfield, page 15) His way of thinking changed so many African Americans lives and his legacy lives on
the board of education was first brought to light in December in 1952. This is where families with black children were segregated and had to go to different schools than the white children. These black children had to take a bus miles away from there home just to go to a black school, when they had all white schools right near there house. Some places didn't even have buses to take the black children to school and made them walk long distances to school some very dangerous walks over train tracks which made a lot of families very nervous. Also the funding for black schools was very low. More than half the funding went to white schools which caused a lot of controversy. Many families sued making this became a huge case in our society. Thurgood Marshall changed everything for these families. Marshall was a civil rights attorney who fought for black children who didn't have the same opportunities as white children. Marshall asked these children what they wanted to be when they grew up and all of them reached for the stars. This made him realize that they were already defeated psychologically. Marshall fought for these students to give them the same rights as white students and it wasn't an easy road, but he never gave