LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Rejecting all White assistance.
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Allowing Whites to help African Americans to reach their potential.
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Calling for violent uprisings.
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Separating Blacks by income level.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Washington designed, developed, and guided the Tuskegee Institute. It became a powerhouse of African-American education and political influence in the United States. He used the Hampton Institute, with its emphasis on agricultural and industrial training, as his model.
Detailed explanation-2: -Founding Tuskegee Institute Washington believed that Southern racism was so entrenched that to demand immediate social equality would be unproductive. His school aimed to train African Americans in the skills that would help the most. Tuskegee Institute became a center for agricultural research.
Detailed explanation-3: -16, 1901, when Washington became the first Black person to dine at the White House. Counsel to many U.S. presidents, he was there at the invitation of President Theodore Roosevelt. Washington was married three times. In 1882, he married his Malden sweetheart, Fannie Norton Smith.
Detailed explanation-4: -Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was the 1881 founding, and ensuing leadership, of the Tuskegee Normal School for Coloured Youth. The school, its name now changed to the Tuskegee Institute, still stands today as a living monument to leadership and foresight of Booker T. Washington.