Booker T. Washington and His Virtues ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Booker T. Washington and His Virtues ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Booker T. Washington did not call for a revolution. Instead, he called for the simplest of building blocks in American society: helping your neighbor. I reread an undergraduate paper comparing the educational methods of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois and realized the comparison was horribly incomplete. I cited only Of the Training of Black Men and The Atlanta Compromise. I still believe Of the Training of Black Men is one of the most im…