How did Booker T. Washington want to help the African American community?

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Sim W.
May 15, 2018

He wanted to develop education and entrepeneurship

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Instead of directly challenging Jim Crow laws, Booker T Washington thought that education and entrepeneurship were good ways to assist the Black community. He was one of the founder of the National Negro Business League, he was based in Tuskegee, Alabama, which was a historically Black college. He is known for the Atlanta Compromise in which he exposed his ideas as lynchings had reached a peak in 1895.

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