How did Booker T. Washington influence the civil rights movement, and how did he contribute to the movement?

Answer 1

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia, and after the Civil War worked in a coal mine and went to school at night. Education was important to him, but he also recognized that blacks in the South had very little power: little money, few rights, and despite the 15th Amendment, were unable to vote. His suggestion, which he made most notably in Atlanta and became known as the Atlanta Compromise, was that blacks get jobs in blue collar craft work and farming and teaching, which were relatively lower paying jobs. He pushed for the creation of agricultural and technical schools, such as Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which he founded. But by working hard and earning respect, and accepting their inferior legal status for the time being, blacks would ultimately gain the respect of whites, who would grant them more rights and allow them to move up the economic ladder. This made Washington very popular with whites at that time, and he was even invited to dine at the White House with Teddy Roosevelt. However, in the next decades, in many ways, Washington was seen as a hindrance to the civil rights movement, with his emphasis on slow economic gain, not pushing for rights, and accommodation to the whites. While Washington was very realistic and understood the situation for blacks in the South at that time, later people saw him as too willing to compromise and keep his people down.

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How did Booker T. Washington influence the civil rights movement, and how did he contribute to the movement?

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He thought education was the only true way to raise any person, regardless of the color of their skin, to true equality. As a result, he studied and became a teacher. Later in 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.