Question

What are some advantages/disadvantages of booker T. Washington’s social and economic strategies for late nineteenth century America

Answer 1

Advantages:

• He believed that education in skills such as farming and industrial work was the tool that would lead African Americans towards a major acceptance from the White Community.
• He promoted solidarity among the African American community. This attitude would lift the community as a whole.

Disadvantages:

• He promoted the acceptance of discrimination for the time being. This automatically positioned African Americans as an inferior group and could be considered as detrimental in the efforts of achieving the equality of rights among all Americans.