“Within a few hours, the great questions that Anglo Saxons had been grappling with for centuries had to be solved : questions of providing a home, a living, food, and churches.” “The great responsibility of being free suddenly took possession of the freed slaves,” he said. He saw the emancipation of slaves as one of the great challenges ever facing humankind. The critics were marginalized until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, at which point more radical black leaders rejected Washington's philosophy and demanded federal civil rights laws.Washington was clearly a Christian and in the book he talks about at a certain point in his life he began each day by reading the Bible, at least one chapter per day.

Du Bois rejected Washington's self-help and demanded recourse to politics, referring to the speech dismissively as 'The Atlanta Compromise'. Meanwhile a more militant northern group, led by W. He was the organizer and central figure of a network linking like-minded black leaders throughout the nation and in effect spoke for Black America throughout his lifetime. White leaders across the North, from politicians to industrialists, from philanthropists to churchmen, enthusiastically supported Washington, as did most middle class blacks. His 'Atlanta Exposition' speech of 1895 appealed to middle class whites across the South, asking them to give blacks a chance to work and develop separately, while implicitly promising not to demand the vote. Born to slavery and freed by the Civil War in 1865, as a young man, became head of the new Tuskegee Institute, then a teachers' college for blacks. He was the organ Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death.

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death.

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