Booker T Washington

After doing the readings for this week, I found Booker T Washington to be very interesting. He was a political leader who was born in slavery and was liked by many people. I thought that it was quite interesting that he had a big sponsorship with powerful whites, a lot of support from the black community and was able to raise educational funds for both the white and black. Also, Washington gave an Atlanta Address of 1895 and from that, it gave him a lot of supporters from the communities. I just feel that was he did in his life was very impressive and interesting to learn about. Later on in his life, Washington and Dubois disagreed on certain issues and never really saw eye to eye. Another great achievement that accomplished was that he wrote fourteen books including his autobiography, Up From Slavery that I thought was very interesting. Booker T Washington did a lot of things in his life and really did make change. He laid the foundation for the increase in blacks to higher education and also built the relationship between both the races. So I just found what he did throughout his life very interesting and he really reminds me of Frederick Douglas, even though they may have done different things.