Booker T. Walker's Story 'Ragtime'

Countless people may ask themselves, where does faith fall when it comes to history? Well faith was clearly displayed to me when the 8th grade went to Ford’s Theater to the play ragtime. All of the action is the production had lots of faith especially Colehouse Walker Jr. Colehouse was a african american that had lots of passion and determination to make blacks and whites equal. The story “Ragtime” took place in the early 1900s and tells the story of three groups in the United States. During this time there was segregation and there was a great deal of hatred against blacks in this time period. The play gave me a real life representation of how life for black people was during this time, and how black were fed up and pushed for change in America. …show more content…
Washington had lots of faith in other black people, he pushed for African Americans to get an education so that change would happen. Life is what you make it and Booker T. Washington put his faith into his education. He is a lot like Colehouse because they both want blacks and whites to be equal and both a strong passion for equality. This is a quote from the Bible “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Faith is the tongue of that quote and those that choose to hold onto it will live to change the world. Booker T. Washington had that connection with God that let him know that he was on the face of the earth to change the world. Faith is the key to success just as education was the key to change in African American lives. Washington has many famous quotes of faith that displays his character. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” That is one of Washington's most famous and faithful …show more content…
Washington’s heart. There are things that can’t be measured, things such as faith and to Booker T. Washington education is faith. Blacks and whites were always destined to be equal and Washington wanted to show it to everyone with smarts. The play “Ragtime” is a great way to see what really happened to blacks and how they suffered because they did not have the same skin color. If you look far beyond America's past you can see that blacks and whites were meant to be together and it took so very brave people like Booker T. Washington to show the world. Maybe someday you may recall this essay and you might ask yourself where does faith fall into history? Well, faith and history go hand in hand and you should think about how you can change the world just like Booker T. Washington and the many men and women that follow after him, that shaped not only America but the