";s:4:"text";s:4609:" Freedmen strongly supported literacy and education as the keys to their future. Historian By this time, Mississippi had passed a new constitution, and other southern states were following suit, or using electoral laws to raise barriers to voter registration; they Washington repudiated the historic abolitionist emphasis on unceasing agitation for full equality, advising blacks that it was counterproductive to fight segregation at that point. Du Bois. Du Bois insisted on full civil rights, due process of law, and increased political representation for African Americans which, he believed, could only be achieved through activism and higher education for African-Americans. Washington responded that confrontation could lead to disaster for the outnumbered blacks, and that cooperation with supportive whites was the only way to overcome racism in the long run.While promoting moderation, Washington contributed secretly and substantially to mounting legal challenges activist African Americans launched against segregation and disenfranchisement of blacks.Washington's work on education helped him enlist both the moral and substantial financial support of many major white He also gave lectures to raise money for the school. The event took place at WVSU's Booker T. Washington Park in At the end of the 2008 presidential election, the defeated Republican candidate Senator The historiography on Booker T. Washington has varied dramatically. His f…
However since the late 20th century, a more balanced view of his very wide range of activities has appeared.
Tuskegee, Ala., Nov. 14 - Booker T. Washington, foremost teacher and leader of the negro race, died early today at his home here, near the Tuskegee Institute, which he founded and of which he was President. He boarded a train and arrived in Tuskegee shortly after midnight on November 14, 1915. Their emancipation was an affront to southern white freedom. He believed that by providing needed skills to society, African Americans would play their part, leading to acceptance by white Americans. Told he only had a few days left to live, Washington expressed a desire to die at Tuskegee. On the plantation in Virginia, and even later, meals were gotten to the children very much as dumb animals get theirs. Booker T. Washington did not understand that his program was perceived as subversive of a natural order in which black people were to remain forever subordinate or unfree.Both Washington and Du Bois sought to define the best means post-Civil War to improve the conditions of the African-American community through education.Washington worked and socialized with many national white politicians and industry leaders. He was seen as a spokesperson for African Americans and became a conduit for funding educational programs.His contacts included such diverse and well-known entrepreneurs and philanthropists as A representative case of an exceptional relationship was Washington's friendship with millionaire industrialist and financier A few weeks later Washington went on a previously planned speaking tour along the newly completed Washington revealed that Rogers had been quietly funding operations of 65 small country schools for African Americans, and had given substantial sums of money to support Tuskegee and Hampton institutes.
"Despite his extensive travels and widespread work, Washington continued as principal of Tuskegee.