BP # 7 - Summary & Reflection - (Parmita Roy)

Booker  Taliaferro Washington

 Booker Taliaferro Washington was one of the most influential black leaders in American history. He was the dominent figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. He was born in slavery, an enslaved women and a white father. Washington was married three times. He spoke on behalf of the large majority of blacks who lived in the south. His accommodation to the political realities of the age of Jim Crow segregation. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became a monument to his life's work. He wanted to stop segregation and discrimination black and white community. His epochal speech in the famous phrase, "In all things that are purely social we can be seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."

I think Booker T. Washington was interest of his race were to be gained through education and improved economic status not political agitation. He contributed secretly and substantially to take legal challenges against segregation of blacks. His autobiography up from slavery, first published in 1901, is still widely read today. I learned a lot of form this American history.

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