I choose Booker Taliaferro Washington as my topic this year for the 2017 National History Fair‚ Compromise and Conflict in history theme because It is an interesting‚ important topic that is skipped in our history books today. Also‚ I wanted to see and study about Booker T.’s life and works. The first thing I did was to go to the library with my partner‚ Andrea. We started off by researching about him online through Wikipedia‚ Britannica‚ Ebsco Host‚ and Google. While in these websites‚ we found
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of great racial tension in the South‚ set the stage for Booker T. Washington’s famous address. During this time of crisis in the United States‚ blacks were the victims of unspeakable crimes such as torture‚ castration‚ hanging and lynching at the hands of white Americans (Retrieving the American Past 7). A new strategy needed to be developed to assist the blacks in America. The organizers of the Atlanta Exposition invited Booker T. Washington to speak at their event because he was a politically powerful
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of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute. Throughout the book Ellison provides his personal views and experiences with these subjects through the college that TIM attends‚ the college Founder‚ and Dr. Bledsoe‚ the president of the college. Ellison uses these characters and other images and scenes related to Washington to show his disagreement with his backward ideals and to convey his theory that‚ "In order to deal with this problem [of emancipated blacks] the North"¦built Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington was born a slave on April 5‚1856. Booker Taliaferro Washington’s life had very little promise early on in his life‚ and Franklin County‚ Virginia as in most states practice Civil War‚ the child of a slave becomes a slave. Booker at an early age started working at a plantation mill toting hundred pound sacks of grain‚he was also beaten on occasion for not performing as he was supposed to. Booker T. Washington also grew up during the Civil War.Although President Lincoln freed
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American’s were in dire need of a leader. The emergence of Booker T. Washington gave the black community a ray of hope; hope that one day they could enjoy social and economic equality despite the color of their skin. Born a slave on a small farm in the outskirts of Virginia‚ Booker Taliaferro Washington grew to become the face of the Civil Rights movement for the black community (Harlen‚ 2004). Following the emancipation of slaves‚ Washington and his mother Jane moved to West Virginia (Lawson‚ 2011)
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paths to travel. While Booker T. Washington chose sacrifice in continuation of hard labor‚ W.E.B DuBois had a strive to fight for civil rights which would then allow the black person to obtain equality on multiple fields. Booker T. Washington explores his path to equality in his article‚ The Awakening
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period of time‚ two people in particular offered strategies for dealing with the troubles African Americans were going through. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois offered very diverse plans of action. While Washington wanted African Americans to go to school and get educated in agriculture‚ Dubois wanted them to protest for their civil rights. Though Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois often had opposing strategies for achieving African American equality‚ each had developed strategies that were
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to the essence of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois by telling us that we can’t change our race or skin color no matter what the circumstances are. This song relates to these people because they were treated unfairly and fought for their rights to have equality for all people. Booker T. and W.E.B. are both successful and influential Americans to live during the 1800s and 1900s. They supported African-American rights and wanted to change American society. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
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Both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois differed on their views on how to assist african americans in their subhuman living conditions faced everyday. Both were aware about the importance of technological advancement for blacks as they thought it was one of the only ways for african americans to make it up higher in society. Washington had the belief that in order to essentially “solve” the race problem in america‚ african americans needed to “prove” themselves worthy of being reliable and good
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November 14‚ 2007 Booker T. Washington and T. Thomas Fortune Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries‚ T. Thomas Fortune was the foremost African American journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using his editorial position at a series of black newspapers in New York City‚ Fortune established himself as a leading spokesman and defender of the rights of African Americans in both the South and the North (wikipedia). The life of T Thomas Fortune spanned
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