RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Booker T. Washington
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W.E.B. DuBois
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Robert E. Lee
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Abraham Lincoln
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Detailed explanation-1: -Washington did publicly speak out against the evils of segregation, lynching, and discrimination in voting. He also secretly participated in lawsuits involving voter registration tests, exclusion of blacks from juries, and unequal railroad facilities.
Detailed explanation-2: -He had the foresight to hire George Washington Carver to lead this school. In the year prior to the start of Tuskegee’s agriculture school, Booker had probably his defining moment when he delivered a speech at the Southern States International Cotton Exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia.
Detailed explanation-3: -In September 1895, Washington became a national hero. Invited to speak at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Washington publicly accepted disfranchisement and social segregation as long as whites would allow black economic progress, educational opportunity, and justice in the courts.