How Is Booker T Washington Relevant Today

African Americans did not. They appeared to be upset by Washington's acceptance of segregation and inequality. W.E.B. Dubois however, saw Washington's ideas as too accommodating for the whites. Outside appearances were not as there really were seen because Washington had secretly funded anti-segregation activities. Washington just simply wanted African Americans and the whites to get along. He even went as far as obtaining funding for the educational system by compromising with white philanthropists. While what he spoke about and championed was equality his approach to accommodate the whites created racial inequality. These actions also allowed Washington to procure support for essential education and training for African Americans. The vision of himself, a young boy standing outside the schoolhouse unable to attend was just as essential as freedom and stayed with him all his life. It was never what Mr. Washington wanted, to publicly speak. He had always preferred to do something about it rather than talk about doing things about it. Mr. Washington was invited to speak at many social such as the National Educational Association. Each time he spoke the …show more content…
Washington. Those are some very tough ideas to stand up too and ones that stand on their own merit. I do not feel that Washington's ideals are relevant today but I say that loosely. His ideas should be relevant today because so many kids today lack direction. In Washington's era, as a slave or a freeman education was a way to escape. It was considered a luxury or the golden egg. Through education you could be successful. You could have self worth and you could respect not only yourself but the job that you had done. Washington's ideas promoted hard work, trial and tribulation, get up and dust yourself off. Having come from a slaves life Washington knew what it was to have drive, to hunger for something that you never were allowed to have. That's why during his time these ideas were