As the founder of Tuskegee Institute and as a leader in the black community, I have counciled my fellow men to try and achieve equality in society through collaboration and understanding. By achieving economic independence and education, blacks can use their own skills to better their lives and futures. In response to the publication of the President's violent actions against the workers in Pullman, Illinois, I have to voice my opinions.
I appeal to the coorporations to consider the black labor force in this country. Instead of resorting to violence to put down the strikes, why not turn to another source of labor instead? My fellow blacks are hard, honest workers, and as i state in my Atlanta Compromise Speech: "you can be sure in the future, as in the past, that you and your families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people that the world has seen." While providing factories and coorporations with the neccesary labor, black individuals will be able to achieve social and economic equality, which is a goal that should be strived for by all.
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About Me
- Booker T. Washington
- I was born a slave on a plantation in Virginia, 1856. Following the Emancipation Proclamation, my family moved to Malden West Virginia to join my stepfather, finiding work in the Salt Mines. When I was 16, I decided that I wanted to attend Hampton Institute in Virginia. Part of the school's belief was that every person should have a trade as well as an education, and by working as a janitor, I was able to earn my schooling. After my graduation, I became a teacher in Tinkersville Virginia for three years. Many years later General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the creator of Hampton Institute, invited me to come back and teach at the school. And in 1881, he suggested that I be the principal of the new Tuskegee Institute, which was started in Tuskegee, Alabama. There I encourage my students not only to better themselves through education, but through hard work as well, by giving them industrial and domestic skills that will benefit them later in life and thereby enable them to gain equality in American Society.
1 comment:
I agree partially with you. The large corporations need to learn how to collaborate with the strikers because violence is not the answer to our problems. I have to disagree with you on your views on President Cleveland's actions because the reasons he sent the federal troops was because the strikers were forcibly stopping the trains which also had US mail cars attached. The strikers were not just stopping the trains from running, they were also stopping the mail from getting through which is an issue that President needed to address.
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