 Washington’s plan was to train most of his students to be teachers who would return to their rural communities and teach the people.

 Washington envisioned a school that would teach students everything from sewing, cooking, and housekeeping for girls, and etc.

 The local whites supported Washington and were right behind him and his growing ability to secure loans and credit.

 Washington officially opened Tuskegee with what he described as 30 “anxious and earnest students”, many of whom were already public school teachers.

 The school was a success and is still in operation today as Tuskegee University.

 This might of not started on this year, but this article response was that a teacher was trying to teach African Americans and needed some support on it because this was a time when African Americans and whites were segregated. This was happened in Booker T. Washington wanted African American to be able to get an education and wanted it to be ok with everyone.

 Booker T. Washington was an innovative in industrial education he convinced Southern white employers and governors that Tuskegee offered an education that would keep blacks.

 One of the people that affected African American at that time was Lucy Craft L. she was able to give education to African American kids. She had lots of support and was able to maintain the school running. Her goal was to turn out a generation of women teachers and community who would neglect the African Americans. Lucy was able to accomplish what she wanted and got many kids to have an education for themselves.

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* Lucy was born during the time of slavery in Macon, Georgia. Laney attended a Lewis High School, founded by the Freedmen’s Bureau after the civil war, and got enrolled into Atlantic University where she was one of the first member graduated in class of After seeing what she had done she started to give back to her community and became a teacher to help other African American get an education.