Achievement
Booker T. Washington made many great achievements in his time period for education for African Americans. Under Washington's leadership, Tuskegee grew into one of the top leading schools in the country. Washington put many of the values he believed in into the school's curriculum, emphasizing the virtues of enterprise, thrift, and patients. He taught that economic success for African Americans would take time, and that complying to whites was a necessary evil until African Americans could show they were worthy of full economic and political rights. Washington thought that black people would be accepted and respected by the white community, if they worked hard to gain financial independence and cultural advancement. Another one of Booker T. Washington's achievements was the speech he gave at the Atlanta Expo. Washington was asked to address a mostly white audience at the 1895 Atlanta Expo. In his speech, he put forth his philosophy on race relations. Washington said that African Americans should accept disenfranchisement and social segregation as long as whites allow them economic progress, educational opportunity and justice in the courts. This caused an outrage in parts of the black community, mostly in the north.