Washington, like Wells, was born a slave. He always showed and interest in reading and learning, he got a job as a houseboy of a white schoolteacher named Viola Ruffner who soon saw potential in him and allowed him to go to school for an hour a day. He grew up to attend, Wayland Seminary and Hampton University and graduated with high marks. The Alabama legislature approved $2,000 for a colored school and (now known as the Tuskegee University) he was recommended to run the school. Washington believed in African Americans just letting the whites get what they wanted. He announced the ‘Atlanta Compromise’ which basically expressed how he thought African Americans should just remain peaceful and socially separate from
Washington, like Wells, was born a slave. He always showed and interest in reading and learning, he got a job as a houseboy of a white schoolteacher named Viola Ruffner who soon saw potential in him and allowed him to go to school for an hour a day. He grew up to attend, Wayland Seminary and Hampton University and graduated with high marks. The Alabama legislature approved $2,000 for a colored school and (now known as the Tuskegee University) he was recommended to run the school. Washington believed in African Americans just letting the whites get what they wanted. He announced the ‘Atlanta Compromise’ which basically expressed how he thought African Americans should just remain peaceful and socially separate from