ipl-logo

Booker T Washington's Impact On African American Education

1640 Words7 Pages

Booker T. Washington’s goal for African Americans after the Civil War was to educate them to cut loose from discrimination and have them rely on themselves for independent standing. As a leader of blacks in the late 19th and early 20th century, he taught his fellow colleagues how to be proper, clean, and seek employment for steadying themselves and being at the same level as whites. He believed that if his people were financially dependent on themselves, it would reflect great importance onto their ego. Although as a child he didn’t have an education and he and his family worked as slaves on the Burroughs plantation. Even after being freed and working in the coal mines in poverty, Washington was hungry for knowledge, He faced many endeavors …show more content…

He was aware that most of his students worked in agriculture to make money, so he watned to teach them to become “teachers” of farming. What he desired for them was that they could return to their country districts and install new ideas to improve their cultivation techniques, so they no longer had to do hard, bone-breaking labor. Washington bought an abandoned plantation, with a loan from his friend, General J. F. B. Marshall, and planted crop there. Teachers from Tuskegee lended a hand in raising funds in which both races supported. The school started growing tendemolously, with additional domestic animals such as goats, hogs, horses, and pigs. Booker T. Washington nad never felt even more satisfied, even donations of generous sums of money were pouring in! He aim for his students was to be moral, love the act of being diligent to better ones self, and solely rely on themselves for empowerment in their communities. The students took an abundant amount of pride in their school, they had worked hard in making bricks in mud-pits as one of their lessons. The reason wasn’t only because the school wanted to have another building, but also because the job was in demand in the market. His students were put in industry work that would set them up for success later in life. Although, it wasn’t easy work, and the addition of multiple failures, they showed strong determination in getting the job

Open Document