What did booker t washington believe in?

Washington's defenders said that he absolutely believed that blacks and whites deserved equality, but he felt it was sensible and pragmatic to take things one step at a time. But both sides agreed that Booker T. Washington was a man of many achievements. read more

Booker T. Washington. Booker Taliaferro was born a mulatto slave in Franklin Country on 5th April, 1856. His father was an unknown white man and his mother, the slave of James Burroughs, a small farmer in Virginia. Later, his mother married the slave, Washington Ferguson. read more

Across the landscape of the most anguished era of American race relations (1895-1915) strode the self-assured and influential Booker T. Washington. The foremost black educator, power broker, and institution builder of his time, Washington in 1881 founded Tuskegee Institute, a black school in Alabama devoted to industrial and moral education and to the training of public school teachers. read more