African American Education Rhetorical Analysis

You would figure that living in the United States one would get the rights they deserve. Well it hasn’t always been that ways especially toward Africans Americans in the South. African Americans have fought for equality in both education and labor. It hasn’t been easy to be considered as an American because there are still some rights that have been denied to us African Americans including, getting a higher education and succeeding in a profession. African Americans and have a right to equality and should be able to work with white men to create a stronger and better nation. Many don’t realize that no matter the races men should be able to unite and work together to prosper. Booker T. Washington an advocate for industrial education for African Americans states in his Atlanta Exposition Speech, “No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” In other words, men need to unite as one and help each other out to better the future of this nation and to create better economic opportunities. In his speech he argues that men need to work together and start from the bottom to reach the top and not any other way around. As an educator not only does he had a point of working together as one, but he emphasizes the point that by African Americans getting a higher education as he did can lead to greater …show more content…
Being the first African American to graduate from Harvard with a doctorate. He wasn’t one to experience the brutal conditions of slavery but Washington and himself had very different ideas on the topic of education and the economy. While Du Bois was more to the liberal studies side Washington was more interested that African American pursue an education in agriculture in business. Of course that I believe that men will be able to benefit more getting an education in business will be more beneficial. That will will help with the