BP#7 summary and reflection sara

Booker T. Washington, born in 1856, was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the main person in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Representative of the last generation of black leaders who was born in slavery, he spoke about blacks living in the South. He was born in a slave, after emancipation, moved with his family to Malden, W.Va. At age nine he began working, first in a salt furnace and later in a coal mine. He decide to get an education, he joined at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia (1872), working as a janitor to help pay expenses. He graduated in 1875 and returned to Malden, where for two years he taught children in a day school and adults at night. In 1881 he founded Tuskegee normal and Industrial Institute on the Hampton model in the Black Belt of Alabama.

My reflection about Booker T. Washington is that he was promise to the better of black people in the United States, and that he was very forward looking and giving good ideas. I think people sometimes fail to raise his ideas. I have been accepted as a defender of Booker T. Washington, and that, I think, is only because so many people look to be against him.