The tone of Booker T Washington`s speech was encouraging and serious. His tone is encouraging because he is telling his people of his era to stop focusing on racism and focus on the economy. He is trying to encourage the white people that they can trust blacks. He is telling his people that they can do anything they put their minds to if they really want to do. He is trying to encourage his people to change their ways of thinking and doing the common labor jobs to rising up to do more. His tone is serious because he really wants the black to understand his message. He is letting them to know that he wants to see better from his people. He wants blacks to know that anything is possible if they try. He is showing them that with ambition succeeding
