Booker T. Washington felt that through education, southern blacks could build their communityÕs economic strength as well as pride with the goal of challenging Jim Crow laws in the long run. Washington was against direct confrontation at the time although he did support court challenges to segregation in secret.
Booker T. Washington believed that Blacks should focus on economic improvement as a way to improve their status in the US. Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute.
Washington did not believe Blacks had to leave the south to gain wealth and prosperity.
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Booker T Washington felt that blacks can help America with a few things. They thought they could help jobs and population.
he stared a school for blacks
Blacks had lost civil rights
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Blacks had lost civil rights.
He urged blacks to achieve economic success. (apex)
He was the first African American to open a school for blacks(Tuskegee university)
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