"I had heard reports to the extent that he was a white man who lived on the nearby plantations. ... Since it was illegal for a slave to learn how to read and write, Washington received no education. After the Civil War, most slaves had no place to go. ... (Washington, Booker Taliaferro) Washington was telling black people that the way to gain respect from the whites is to do the same jobs as them. ... (Yankowitz) Groups such as the NAACP and the Niagara Movement demanded "civil rights and encouraging protests in response to white aggressions such as lynchings, disfranchisement, and segr...

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