Booker T Washington Good Or Bad

To whom it may concern,
To maintain a government and society run by the citizens of this country, citizens must participate in it to better understand and be familiar with your community and country. Booker T. Washington was a good example because he was a very powerful speaker and he knew how to persuade both black and white individual communities, he also founded the institute to teach African American teachers who devoted their lives to teach the young. Booker T. Washington did a lot for our country but he also influenced change when he turned the place where he worked into a creative, agricultural and industrial training industry in which he had persuaded the whites that it would do nothing to harm them or change anything, it was just so they could …show more content…
Booker T. Washington deserves a national holiday because he was the first African American to have honor of being invited to the white house, he was self-motivated and he founded the school for African American teachers who devoted their lives to teach others. (www.docsouth.unc.edu)
Society is different today because of Washington’s work because he helped in getting equal rights for African Americans. He did this by showing the whites that they to are capable of getting an education and that they to are capable of owning a business or their own land that they could take care of themselves. He also left a lasting impression on the world of education.
People benefit from booker today because they can get an education or they might go to Tuskegee university. Because of him African Americans now have equal rights just as any other American citizen.
Sincerely,
James