1 Antonio Halabi AP English 2/16/2011 Analytical/Expository Essay Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington‚ considered today as one of the most influential and respected African American figures‚ was born into slavery and was later freed by the revolutionizing effects of the Emancipation Proclamation. His charismatic and peaceful personality along with his role in philanthropic acts‚ politics‚ and negotiations soon turned him into a source of admiration shortly after the end of the
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“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the finger‚ yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” (Washington‚ p. 107) This expresses how no matter what race‚ country or gender you are from‚ you are still needed in society to improve the country as a whole. Throughout the beginning of American history‚ Americans have fought for freedom and equality from their mother country. Even in the recent years‚ people fought for gay marriage equality‚ giving homosexuals
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In his autobiography titled “Up from Slavery” Booker T. Washington tells the story of his journey from being a slave to an educator. He writes that the best way for a person to lift him or herself up is by lifting someone else up. It was his dream and goal to see members of his race live such useful and successful lives that they would not just be put up with rather they would be a necessity and would be of great value to their communities. Washington believed that the African American people needed
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“Continuing the Legacy of Booker T. Washington: Beyond the 21st Century” Booker T. Washington was an influential educator and African-American public figure throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries among both Blacks and Whites. Booker T. Washington is known for more than founding and becoming the first president of the Black college‚ Tuskegee University‚ in 1801. Booker T. Washington single-handedly contrived a generation of African-Americans who were effectuate‚ capable‚ and intelligent
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Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois were two black persons who lived in different times in the Negros life in America‚ as slaves and as free slaves. Booker T. Washington was born a slave‚ but became a free slave‚ he‚ started to believed that Africans should work to win the respect of the whites. Also he‚ believed that blacks should just accept that whites are not responsible of why blacks are in a difficult economic and social situation‚ he said that "blacks should start from the bottom and work
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pointless. During the late 19th and early 20th century‚ Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois came to be known as two of the great leaders in civil rights movement and more importantly in the education of the black community. Although Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois have the common goal of improving the education of African Americans‚ both of these great leaders have different philosophies in the education of the black community. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois come from different backgrounds
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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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Steps for Integration: Booker T vs. WEB Du Bois Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois both had their own individual approaches for dealing with Black America’s poverty‚ discrimination‚ and segregation problems at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Their opposing strategies both greatly assisted their race through the times of struggle. They fought for the same thing‚ but had different ways of handling the situation in order to change the country at that time. Although
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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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