How Did Booker T Washington Impact Society

Introduction
For this paper I have decided to focus on Booker T. Washington as my topic. Washington is one of the great men that has made a great impact on the lives of African Americans. The purpose of this paper is to highlight his key achievements in his time and how it has impacted the society then and now. I feel as if he is overlooked as someone that has made a great impact and that not many people acknowledge him for all that he has accomplished. In reasoning I would like to focus on his significance and importance in society. In doing research I feel as if I will be able to find out even more interesting facts about him that makes him such a phenomenal man. I want to be able to fully understand the reasoning’s of him going against the …show more content…
Washington, I still feel as if it has great significance. I want my reader to know how impactful Washington was for blacks in that time and how he still impactful now. I want my reader to grasp the idea that Washington was seen as an American and not a colored individual because he was able to make that name for himself. With the focus on education he was able to pave the way for many black individuals who wanted to pursue a higher education. In this sense I do not want him to only have that seen as his only accomplishment but to show that he has done more than that through education and his way of thinking. Washington is a man of higher thinking, he likes to think outside of the box and take his ideas to a whole new level, which I want to be seen as something great and …show more content…
There are two specific articles title “The Social Significance of Booker T Washington” and “Negotiating the Veil: Tuskegee’s Booker T. Washington Monument” that will help me focus on Washington’s significance in the educational realm. With these articles I will be able to go in depth on his reasoning’s and better understand his journey to introducing an institute for African Americans to society. There is another article titled “Recognizing the True Greatness of Booker T. Washington”, this article will help me pull out all of the big factors in Washington’s life that have been overlooked my society as a whole. With the other sources I will be able to pull out the little details that may be missing in the other sources to fully help me explain his impact on society. These last couple sources can be counted as my secondary sources for the