The period following the abolishment of slavery was a time of hardship and identity building for African Americans and a time of conflict and violence for White Americans. African Americans in the south were faced with the tedious task of trying to survive in a racist nation who wants to demoralize and segregate them. During this period, African Americans did everything in their power to receive equal rights and an equal opportunity to survive and support their families. Out of this period came an individual, Booker T. Washington, who becomes sort of a spokesman for the entire African American race. Booker T. Washington develops this status because he claims to have the answer to the problems that racism induce on the nation. I think Washington's idea of "good race relations" helps the nations racism problems but I don't think it was in the best interest of Blacks.
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Booker T. Washington life tells me a lot about how African Americans lived and what they had to do in order to survive. I think Washington found a way to use Whites in a time where Blacks received little or no help from Whites. Washington's underlying actions tells me a little bit about how Blacks could use Whites while benefiting themselves as well as their race. I think in Washington's boast of the race that enslaved and demoralize Blacks, he felled to realize that he was in the way of the real progress. Blacks as a whole wanted equal rights and equal opportunity but Washington said that a little segregation led to "good race relations" or progress as he put it. This tells me that even with someone like Washington who slowed the real progress of African Americans, Blacks as a race was willing to go through any obstacle, even if it was one that was put there by one of their own, to react their goal of equality.
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