Booker T. Washington

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This paper discusses Booker T. Washington, who was an excellent example of change for his race and for the nation, during a significantly difficult period of US history. The paper discusses the Tuskegee Normal and Vocational Institute which was created by Washington and the purpose of the institution. The paper specifically focuses on how Washington worked for the education of Black people in America and the personal philosophy he applied to his work.

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"Though some have said that the ever cheery manner in which Washington addressed the world, through his orations was a pacification of sorts that was intended to glean support for his school, rather than tell the nature of his real standing on the issue of the education of blacks. Regardless the development of Tuskegee as a cornerstone for the development of other educational offerings for blacks in the south was of significant impact to nation, as more and more people began to appreciate the need to elevate former slaves and their children and grandchildren to a level of opportunity that would have higher forms later. Washington was clearly a pacifist by nature, and he had a sense of the need to take short steady strides toward opportunity, as those who still held the power and the resources would be guided, little to his side if he insulted and cajoled them for an institution, that many had fought to eradicate."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Denton, Virginia Lantz. Booker T. Washington and the Adult Education Movement. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993.
• Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
• Sehat, David. "The Civilizing Mission of Booker T. Washington." Journal of Southern History 73.2 (2007): 323.
• Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography. New York: A.L. Burt, 1901.

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