Who was Booker T. Washington?
I must point out that he was not a founder of the NAACP. That was an outgrowth of the Niagara Movement (1905), headed by W. E. B. DuBois, and was founded in 1909. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute and believed that blacks would eventually gain full civil rights, including education, by showing themselves to be responsible, reliable American citizens. Du Bois wanted immediate end to racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood. Washington favored vocational training and assimilation in American society whereas Du Bois favored liberal arts and immediate educational opportunities.
