Education- Booker T, Washington, Booker T. Washington National Monument, Virginia, Franklin County
The Booker T. Washington National Monument commemorates the place where Booker T. Washington was born, enslaved, circa 1856. In 1872, Washington sought an education at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, Virginia. The school was founded in 1868 by former Federal Civil War General Samuel Armstrong to served the former enslaved. After graduating, Washington was given administrative responsibilities at the school, and in 1881, Armstrong encouraged Washington to take a leadership role in establishing Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. As the head of Tuskegee Institute, Washington stressed self-improvement and job training to enable black students to become gainfully employed and self-supporting as craftsmen or industrial workers. In this role Washington presented to a biracial audience his 1895 Atlanta Compromise Address. In his address Washington essentially proposed that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guarantee that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Washington's approach was opposed by William W. E. B. Du Bois, a noted black educator at Fisk University and contemporary of Washington. DuBois and his supporters insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.
Education- Booker T, Washington, Booker T. Washington National Monument, Virginia, Franklin County
The Booker T. Washington National Monument commemorates the place where Booker T. Washington was born, enslaved, circa 1856. In 1872, Washington sought an education at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, Virginia. The school was founded in 1868 by former Federal Civil War General Samuel Armstrong to served the former enslaved. After graduating, Washington was given administrative responsibilities at the school, and in 1881, Armstrong encouraged Washington to take a leadership role in establishing Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. As the head of Tuskegee Institute, Washington stressed self-improvement and job training to enable black students to become gainfully employed and self-supporting as craftsmen or industrial workers. In this role Washington presented to a biracial audience his 1895 Atlanta Compromise Address. In his address Washington essentially proposed that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guarantee that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Washington's approach was opposed by William W. E. B. Du Bois, a noted black educator at Fisk University and contemporary of Washington. DuBois and his supporters insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.