Washington believed that equality should not be demanded by Black Americans but rather be earned. In 1895, Washington delivered the “Atlanta Compromise Address,” in which he urged African Americans to gain economic stability before seeking equality with whites. In this speech he said, “It is important and right that all privileges of the law be yours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercises of these privileges,” which meant he thought it was important to have rights but it was far more important to know how use these rights. Industrial education was important and advocated by Washington and he had many supporter of this ideology. One of those being Ida Barnett, who said in Document H, “Industrial education for the Negro is Booker T. Washington’s hobby.” T. Thomas Fortune also saw much success and value in the education system developed by Washington, saying in Document G, that Tuskegee Normal was an important and significant school that didn’t waste time on things such as “dead languages or superfluous studies of any
Washington believed that equality should not be demanded by Black Americans but rather be earned. In 1895, Washington delivered the “Atlanta Compromise Address,” in which he urged African Americans to gain economic stability before seeking equality with whites. In this speech he said, “It is important and right that all privileges of the law be yours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercises of these privileges,” which meant he thought it was important to have rights but it was far more important to know how use these rights. Industrial education was important and advocated by Washington and he had many supporter of this ideology. One of those being Ida Barnett, who said in Document H, “Industrial education for the Negro is Booker T. Washington’s hobby.” T. Thomas Fortune also saw much success and value in the education system developed by Washington, saying in Document G, that Tuskegee Normal was an important and significant school that didn’t waste time on things such as “dead languages or superfluous studies of any