ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 –1915) was a pioneering black leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States, particularly in the rural South. Washington was the pre-eminent black accommodationist in the post-slavery era, who founded the famous Tuskegee Institute.

Detailed explanation-2: -Du Bois attacked Washington’s acceptance of racial segregation, arguing that this only encouraged whites to deny African Americans the right to vote and to undermine black pride and progress.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.