Part One: (5 pages minimum)
You should write your paper in an essay style. In reading his autobiography, how would you justify the
legacy of Booker T. Washington as a leader of blacks in the years following the Civil War until his
death? You should include Booker’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. You should
discuss his desires and ambitions as a young man and how he achieved them. You should include his
work to improve race relations between whites and blacks. In that context in addition to discussing his
work and ideas in Tuskegee, you should discuss his significant speeches chief among them being the
Atlanta Speech. You should 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”. You can read the article in the site I have
provided below.
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