How Did Booker T Washington Pushed For African American Education

Booker T. Washington pushed for African Americans to learn trades, because he believed that by gaining industrial skills they would always have economic security. Booker T. Washington wanted African Americans to accept discrimination as it was at the time. He wanted blacks to work hard for themselves, obtain wealth and prosperity. He believed that by adopting a strong work ethic, and wealth, blacks would be eventually socially accepting by whites, in turn ending segregation slowly. W.E.B. Du Bois believed that African Americans should educate themselves in the arts and sciences, and not so much on trade education. He feared that by being reduced to only industrial trades, African Americans would remain at the lower end of social economic