Discuss the life and legacy of booker t washington

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Assignment:

Write your paper in an essay. Booker T. Washington, Up From slavery. Use the whole book to write your paper.

Part One: (5 pages minimum)

Critically analyze and discuss the life and legacy of Booker T. Washington as a leader of blacks in the late 19th and early 20th century. Include Washington's experiences as a slave child, his views on white slave masters and mistresses and his views on whites soon after the Civil War when slavery was abolished. Discuss his desires and ambitions as a young man and how he achieved them. Include in your discussion his views on relations between whites and blacks. In that context in addition to discussing his work and ideas in Tuskegee, discuss his significant speeches chief among them being the Atlanta Speech. Write also about his views on what he considered to be the best ways for blacks to improve their lives in the years following the Civil War.

Part Two: (2 pages minimum)

Are Booker T. Washington's ideas about education relevant for today? Discuss this in relationship to the article; "Beyond One-Size-Fits-All College Dreams".

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