Booker T. Washington was Considered the most influential black educator. Washington won over local whites in the community. He had an influence of the southern race relations and he was also dominant towards a figure in the black public affairs that where in 1895. When he was a teacher he controlled the funds of the black schools and colleges. He had blacks to accept discrimination of the time being and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and for their material prosperity. He had to speak at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.
Booker T. Washington was publicly accepted disfranchisement (the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote) and racial segregation as long as whites would allow black economic progress. Washington’s contributions to African American advancement. Booker T. Washington supported the full agenda of civil and political rights. He was the most famous black man in America between 1895 and 1915. In 1881, Booker …show more content…
Washington became one of the four million slaves to be emancipated(free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated). Some people disagreed on strategies for black social and economic progress. Washington's position was to be leading the role of being the spokesman. Washington's autobiographies and speeches reveals a vagueness and subtlety to his message. Booker would like to travel around the South to raise funds and gain support for the school. Booker wants to have both races in the schools. Booker determined to get an education, he couldn't so he went to work and he would carry grains, he also worked at an early