Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery
Part 1
Booker Washington’s legacy is just phenomenal and breathtakingly when reading his
autobiography through Up from Slavery. After slaves were allowed to have their own names, he
came up with the name Booker T. Washington. He decides to make a fresh start by publishing a
book under the name Booker Taliaferro Washington. He was brought into the world in the
Franklin Area Virginia. He doesn't remember who his dad is or when he was conceived. He was
naturally introduced to a bondage and enslaved life, and he doesn't have numerous recollections
about his prior youth yet living a little in a log lodge cabin with his siblings. He describes the
difficulties his family faced simply living in a very hostile cabin that was small and they had to
share it with 4 other families.
Booker T. Washington is thought to have been fortunate as compared with other slaves. From his
own life experience as a kid, it is vivid that his life was the smoothest as compared to other
renowned slaves. Booker T. Washington never talked about how slave owners treated him badly.
According to what we know, slaves' masters have always treated them cruelly and inhumanly.
They are whipped until they are bleeding and starving, or even beaten to death. However, Booker
T. Washington has nothing terrible to say regarding his owners. He uses kind words to describe
his master throughout his book, regardless of how they treat him. I feel that this shows that he
was not so open to revealing everything that happened to him. It seems that he does not reveal
his terrible experiences or maybe he was just very fortunate. Booker Washington states that He
was just a child when the Civil war ended and it meant that they were free of slavery and
bondage.
Booker T. Washington is a hopeful and positive kid as he grows up. He never gave anyone above
him or his white masters a bad name. Instead, he uses words to say how blessed he is to meet
each and every one of them, no matter how good or bad their relationship is. He describes Mrs.
Viola Ruffner as the salt furnace’s owner. Every one of her laborers don't endure over about
fourteen days aside from Booker T. Washington. He has been working under her for almost two
years. Booker expresses his gratitude to her for the manner in which she treats him rather than
voicing his dissatisfaction or complaints. He attributes his acceptance to Hampton Institute,
where he will begin his formal education, to her. All through his heritage, he is very thoughtful to
include all his white allies. They include very famous people. These include Andrew Carnegie,
Mary Mackie, George Campbell and General Armstrong. He does not have unresolved hate
towards the white race for how they treated his people when they were enslaved. He understands
that not every white person was the problem. He treats everyone equally. He not even once
shows his scorn contemplations nor barbaric ways of behaving towards the whites. Booker T.
Washington is a mature man because he treats people of all races the same way he wants to be
treated, no matter how many times he has been treated badly because of his race. He has grown
as a person because he knows what is right to do instead of taking small things for granted and
letting madness rule his judgments. Booker T. Washington triumphs over all of his encounters
with segregation because he wants to make a difference—not just for himself but for all black
people, slaves, and people of color. As a youngster, Booker T. Washington was adjusted to a
functioning way of life whether it is his decision or not. He worked in a mine. As he depicts the
work, he tells his difficult dedicated hours along smelling and covering in rottenness. Even
though he is aware that this job requires a lot of physical strength, he has never mentioned
quitting simply because it is difficult. When it interferes with him trying to make money to pay
for the night class, the only obvious reason he decides to stop working is because he regrets
missing classes. Booker T. Washington puts in a lot of effort. His determination to work as hard
as he can demonstrates his will to earn the money that enables him to pursue education. He wants
to be treated with respect and be compensated. All through his book, it appears to be that Booker
T. Washington is pulling for quality instead of amount. Instead of profiting from the
disadvantaged and underappreciated, he strives for the quality of the education he provides for
his students. Booker T. Washington wants to change the racial divide between white people and
black people. However, he refuses to participate in politics that directly affect his community.
The segregation does not scare him. He clearly doesn't worry about the Ku Klux Klan or the
possibility of being killed for standing up for these people. He doesn't worry about dying. He
isn't anxious about not being picked to fill the seat and be a piece of government. Booker T.
Washington, on the other hand, chooses to teach in schools. From what he learns in school, how
he cleans himself, how he learns social skills, and how he makes his bed, he chooses to give back
to his community. He feels like giving other people who don't have a potential chance to go to
class is well more worth the effort. He wants more opportunities for the minority, like jobs,
knowledge, and living skills. He believes that it is more important than just being able to express
his political views. His happiness when his students graduate and make a name for themselves
perfectly demonstrates this. His students express their gratitude to him for passing on knowledge.
By becoming teachers or members of the government, the students are being given the
opportunity to give back to the black community. Booker T. Washington believes that teaching is
more satisfying. He thinks that education can be the most effective way to help the community
for longer and longer. He believes that education and knowledge will shorten the duration of
segregation in life, while politics may cease to exist the following day.
Since Booker T. Washington was more youthful, guidance and education has forever been his
main need. He specifies the initial occasion when he was holding the books for his master. He
says that he always thinks about going to school from that point on. All through his book, he
ensures that he will go to class notwithstanding the difficulty. Assuming that implies that he
should work longer during daytime and actually depleted during night school. or that he would
sweep the entire campus in an effort to acquire sufficient funds to remain at Hampton Institute.
or the fact that he doesn't wear school uniforms and doesn't have enough money for books.
Despite any challenges he has faced, his drive for education never wavers. He can overcome the
challenges of not going home for the holiday and not being able to see his mother for the last
time before she passes away, sleeping on the street, working extra hours during school, looking
for work during his time off, and starving during mealtimes. His commitment to obtaining an
education is admirable. The only motivation that keeps him going is the idea of graduating and
continuing his education. He wants to finish school in a few years so that he can give back to his
community in a variety of ways through teaching once he does. He wants to be like the other
privileged children.
Painful images of Booker T. Washington walking for days without food serve as a metaphor for
the difficulties he faced while pursuing an education. Additionally, the images of him sleeping in
public at an odd location because he is unable to pay for a hotel. Nevertheless, he continues to
travel from a modest Tuskegee town to Hampton Institute. He does not lie, cheat, or steal when
he is unable to pay for the schoolhouse, but he does his best in any small opportunities that can
only provide a dime. Booker T. Washington never takes a break from his work. He never stops to
figure out how to bring in cash. He never fails to reimburse his debtor. Because of everything he
has done for his community, he is a man of great respect regardless of his skin color. As a result,
when he needs to borrow money from his old friends, they are eager to assist him. even if that
means that his friends are spending money they have saved. These are the white people; They
were not required to comply with Booker T. Washington's instructions. They made the decision
to do so because Booker and their relationship go above and beyond any expectations. They want
to assist Booker in any way they can to ensure that he achieves his objective. They all offer a
shared objective of having an effect through schooling for his local area, and different races too.
Booker T. Washington is well-known for the speech he gave on September 18, 1895, in Atlanta,
Georgia. It is the initial occasion when him to give out a public discourse before a crowd of
people with more than two - a huge number of white people. They are any normal white slave
drivers as well as the panel of Georgia and bunches of individuals from the Congress. Booker is
the main person of color that has an opportunity to deliver a discourse before Atlanta residents in
objective of getting the public authority help for the Composition. Because he is concerned about
the reaction that a large white audience will have to a black man speaking, he limits the length of
his speech to five minutes. However, it turns out that he asked the more fortunate citizens to
assist the Negros for fifteen minutes in his speech. Booker T. Washington appeals to white people
to provide additional assistance to the black community in areas such as education, agriculture,
mechanics, and employment. Booker T. Washington requests the Congress as well as the
residents from the country for additional amazing open doors for his kin, the Negros, the Blacks,
or the minority. He emphasizes the thirty years since the Civil War as the moment when
segregation must end. He wants all races to have the same chance of survival and employment in
a single nation. Regardless of his skin color, his speech gets a lot of attention. The black people
finally have the official voice they've been looking for in order to be heard thanks to this
fantastic speech.
Part 2
Education can be viewed from a variety of perspectives, depending on the context—the life that
followed the Civil War and the life that exists today thanks to technology. Booker T. Washington
has an alternate thought with regards to educating and has the option to support his understudies
not in study hall but rather in their public activity too. He wants to be able to stand on the same
level as white people. Through his teaching style and deep concern for his students, he can
impart his knowledge. In today's world, schools lack that essential ingredient for caring for
students. Booker T. Washington has a dream of his African American community will actually
want to graduate or have the open door in school. He ensures that minority groups receive
opportunities throughout his life. Booker T. Washington gets cash with the goal that he can have
a respectable study hall to educate. It continues beyond that. The perfect homeroom for several
unfortunate understudies to learn around evening time transform into a school building with
different instructors and many understudies that will learn. Booker T. Washington is aware of the
difficulties that arise when trying to balance working during the day to earn a living and
attending school at night with a drained body. Yet, he never takes advantage of his unfortunate
understudies. Some of them are even viewed as old timers who are anxious to figure out how to
peruse. The students could follow in Booker's footsteps and travel a thousand miles to a white
school for an education. They failed to. They welcome Booker's instruction and are content or
even blessed. compared to the decade of today. Instead of earning an associate or bachelor’s
degree at the end, students focus more on the lesson plan and forget what it's really like to get an
education. Students in this age of technology lose sight of the drive to learn to read and to get the
jobs they deserve rather than those that pay well enough to afford their luxury lifestyle or even
enough to get by each month. Booker T. Washington has a profound concern for his students. He
is concerned about the setting in which he will instruct them. He cares about his people more
than they ever could have imagined. Booker T. Washington finds the opportunity to notice the
local area that he will educate in. As he moves about, he notices the smallest things. He stays
with the student's family to experience life as a student. Booker shows his students how to wash
themselves properly. Every morning, he teaches them how to make their beds. They learn how to
farm from him. He shows them how to converse with other people. They learn how to read from
him. He explains to them why higher education is more valuable. His valuable lessons go beyond
what can be found in a textbook. He maintains that his understudies should have the option to
flourish not even from understanding book, yet how to get by in genuine world. That ought to be
the focus of a teacher. In this long period, it is exceptionally uncommon to have the option to go
over an enthusiastic educator who is needing awesome for their understudies. Instead of teachers
who only teach what is written in the book and have no interest in student life, In some in direct
manner,
Booker T. Washington acts an instructor and direction for this understudy to become like him,
somebody who can prevail regardless of the isolation of the shade of his skin. It is a contrary
method of how our guides act nowadays. They will generally remove their understudy's fantasy
when troublesome opportunity arrives on the grounds that it is more sensible. Students should be
encouraged by counselors to aim for more than just well-paying jobs. They should be aware of
each student's strengths and weaknesses in order to direct them toward their own success.
Recently versus today in schooling is totally different. There is no correct. When Booker T.
Washington was a black man trying to speak up for his community, the world was different then.
Segregation is no longer present. However, there is no drive or motivation to improve the world
or make a difference. In this generation, having a degree that entitles one to a high-paying job is
the only common goal.