Booker T. Washington. Views and Desires of Washington

Booker T. Washington
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The current standings of Booker T. Washington's among the scholars are not strong. Some scholars have referred to his programs as having economically anachronistic, and politically they are regressive. His popular book "Up from slavery" has been criticized for being a promotional mask while it ought to have been an honest autobiography. They also ridiculed Washington for his paternalistic to blacks and subservient to whites. However, looking at his autobiography "up from slavery" given slavery basing all evidence, he is among the last of the slave narrative narrators, then Booker T. Washington becomes one of the appealing figures in this area. It is observed that not only did Washington have personal experience within the racial disorders but also it also affected his family and raised the racial insecurity within him increasing his determination to fight the vice. Hence creating a basic drive which is clearly shown in "up from slavery" and also shown by his desire to become an unencumbered figure or father to as many people as possible who were facing the same issues as he was and help in as many ways as possible. This paper is going to analyze Washington's life based on his autobiography.
Booker T. Washington
Washington was born a slave in 1856 in Virginia farm. When the civil war ended, Washington was only nine years old. He had a humble but stern upbringing, which required him to work and serve at a salt furnace. He was a houseboy for a white family, and this is where he states that he gained the traits of cleanliness, personal morality, and frugality. He developed a great desire for learning and reading. His education was taken up at the Hampton Institute, and the school model was upon which he later used to base while developing his institution in Tuskegee.
He observes he has no good collection of his parents, and he describes his father to be a white man who had no interest in his upbringing, but he did not blame him as he states he is another victim of the social institution. As a slave child, he had to endure bad living conditions where he shared a small cabin, which also acted as the plantation kitchen since his mother was the plantation cook. He could not access school and the furthest to school was to the classroom doors as he helped his mistress carry her books to schools. This went on until the war was over.
He worked as a janitor to carter for his tuition, and this made the Hamptons founder recognize the young enthusiast and was his favorite student. The school founder general Samuel Chapman Armstrong based his curriculum on moral character, discipline, and practical trade. On graduating, he enrolled as a tutor at a local elementally, school until in 1880 when Chapman invited him to go and teach in his former school. One year after his enrolment at the Hampton school, Washington was nominated to head a new institution at Tuskegee, and he was to train black farmers, skilled workers, and teachers.
Views and Desires of Washington
At the time, Washington was a symbol in matters of race. His philosophies and actions were well inclined and fitted in well with the society demand at the time because of the worsening race relations. At the age of Jim, Crow Washington...