Booker T. Washington was born a slave and was nine years old when slavery ended. When booker T. Washington was older he created the Tuskegee institute in Alabama. He was the principal their and he taught blacks about the industry and industrial skills. He was a politician and also a good public speaker‚ he was able to get whites and blacks to donate to his school. Booker T. Washington was a better and stronger advocated for rights of African Americans than W.E.B. Dubois was because Washington wasn’t
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Booker T. Washington uses the metaphor of the fingers and the hand to alleviate the pressures felt by both whites and blacks. Whites did not want to feel forced into interaction while a lot of blacks would have probably felt resentment towards having to interact with whites. In the passage preceding this declaration‚ he states‚ "we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach interlacing our industrial‚ commercial‚ civil and religious life with yours in a way that shall make
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Your morals mostly come from the way you are brought up. They way you were brought up also defines you as a person. It forms the way you view things‚ handle or approach certain situations. W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington were raised completely different ways. Some may even go as far to say that they are polar opposites. That is why their approach on getting equality for African Americans are completely different. I agree with both of their approaches for many reasons but I also disagree with
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In the age of Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” program‚ Americans viewed formal education as a road to equality amongst social groups‚ and many of the immigrants and their descendants eagerly embraced schooling as a means of upward mobility. Even though this theory was the farthest thing away from the truth‚ these schools were separated and grouped children according to their culture‚ religion‚ and class as well as skin color. These schools were established by reformers and missionaries
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This chapter begins where it should begin - at the beginning! Or least at the beginning as Booker knew it. He tells us he was born in Franklin County Virginia‚ but he is not sure of the year - it’s either 1858 or 1859 - and he doesn’t know what month or what day. He does know that his birth took place near a crossroads post-office called Hale’s Ford. Otherwise‚ his earliest impressions are of the plantation and the slave quarters‚ the most miserable‚ desolate‚ and discouraging of surroundings. His
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Booker T. Washington 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors and Citizens: One-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race. No enterprise seeking the material‚ civil‚ or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success. I but convey to you‚ Mr. President and Directors‚ the sentiment of the masses of my race when I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro
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Booker T. v. WEB DuBois DBQ During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century there was a social reform taking place within the South. The Civil War had just ended and Lincoln freed the slaves. The slaves were now free to join the others in society‚ but they still faced many issues‚ which still made them less superior to all other humans within Southern society. Booker T. and WEB DuBois‚ two of the strongest leaders of the black during this time‚ had two very different strategies to
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one exemplified or understood this statement more than its author‚ Mr. Booker T. Washington. Washington was born a plantation slave on April 4th‚ 1856. Until the emancipation proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863‚ Booker lived as a lowly‚ unknowing slave boy on Franklin County‚ Virginia. After he was freed from slavery‚ Booker began seeking education. Although he was a poor man who hardly knew how to read‚ Booker was able to save just enough funds to attend the school established for
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Booker T. Washington was the most important black educator of the late and early 20th centuries; he positively impacted the history of America. Booker Taliaferro was born a mulatto slave in Franklin County‚ Virginia on April 5th 1856. Booker had 3 other si His father was an unknown white man and his mother was a slave of James Burroughs. His mothers “master” was a small farmer from Virginia. His mother got married to a man named Washington Ferguson. When booker started school he took his stepfathers
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Booker T Washington and W.E.B Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black Americans at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. By using my knowledge of the documents and my knowledge of the period 1877-1915‚ I was able to asses the appropriateness of each of the strategies in the historical context in which it was developed. I came to the conclusion that Booker T Washington’s strategy was more appropriate for
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