The question above is intended to analyze your opinion of Booker T. Washington. As an opinion is very personal, I cannot answer this question for you, but I will show you how to develop your opinion.
Booker T. Washington was a very influential black leader, despite having ideas that were not supported by the entire black community. About it, we can say that:
- He believed that blacks should not fight whites or even question them.
- He asserted that blacks should accept discrimination, not try to fight it and not try to gain a place in society by doing the same things as whites.
- He claimed that this type of behavior highlighted the anger of whites and that it did not benefit blacks.
- However, he said that blacks should help themselves, accommodate themselves to their social positions and be charitable to each other.
- He did not believe that black lives would improve with the requirement of social and political rights, but with hard work and material prosperity.
This kind of philosophy attracted many allies, but many blacks criticized this thinking, as they claimed that Booker T. Washington defended the idea of black inferiority and white supremacy.
However, he went completely against the Jin Crown laws that harmed black people intensely and he fought against those laws, even though he felt that black people should not fight against discrimination.
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