As the head of Tuskegee Institute Booker T Washington was a key historical figure and spokesperson for the black race between the 19th and 20th century. He believed African Americans should grow and develop through the likes of effort and education. Instead of seeking to achieve social and political equality with the Caucasian race.
His impact on the history of the black race and his fight for desegregation. Was only one of the many individual and political attempts to right the wrongs between blacks and whites. Which eventually spawned to a civil rights movement and other political acts that acted upon fixing these issues between the two races.
Booker who was born into slavery with no father figure who was an unknown white man; and a mother who was a cook on a plantation. After eventually getting emancipated in 1865 Washington and his family moved on to Malden, West Virginia, where he worked on places like salt furnaces and coal mines. With a desire for an education Booker took on night classes and eventually moved on to an Agricultural institute in Virginia. He soon became strongly influenced by his principal Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Armstrong held a program that instructed African Americans for jobs and instill values he believed African Americans would be granted political and civil rights once they prove …show more content…
He did so through winning the support of local whites and recruiting African American children. Washington soon built Tuskegee into an institution with 540 acres of land and an enrollment of more than 400 students by 1888. Like his predecessor Hampton, Washington offered training in a variety of skilled trades at Tuskegee. Boys studied farming and dairying; girls learned cooking, sewing, and other homemaking skills. In the academic departments, the emphasis was on the practical applications of learning rather than learning for its own
His impact on the history of the black race and his fight for desegregation. Was only one of the many individual and political attempts to right the wrongs between blacks and whites. Which eventually spawned to a civil rights movement and other political acts that acted upon fixing these issues between the two races.
Booker who was born into slavery with no father figure who was an unknown white man; and a mother who was a cook on a plantation. After eventually getting emancipated in 1865 Washington and his family moved on to Malden, West Virginia, where he worked on places like salt furnaces and coal mines. With a desire for an education Booker took on night classes and eventually moved on to an Agricultural institute in Virginia. He soon became strongly influenced by his principal Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Armstrong held a program that instructed African Americans for jobs and instill values he believed African Americans would be granted political and civil rights once they prove …show more content…
He did so through winning the support of local whites and recruiting African American children. Washington soon built Tuskegee into an institution with 540 acres of land and an enrollment of more than 400 students by 1888. Like his predecessor Hampton, Washington offered training in a variety of skilled trades at Tuskegee. Boys studied farming and dairying; girls learned cooking, sewing, and other homemaking skills. In the academic departments, the emphasis was on the practical applications of learning rather than learning for its own