Booker T Washington Concept of Race Relations
Booker T. Washington, a former slave, in 1882, at the end of the Reconstruction, came to the scene as principal of now Tuskegee University. ... At a time when there were few Black heroes of his national prestige and status, Booker T. Washington was one, for this blacks loved him. ... Strong recognition of Booker T. Washington was the passing of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass’ death brought an end to an era in the black American political ideology ( ), thus paving the way for Washington’s assumption of the race’s symbolic leadership ( ).