Jim_Crow_Era

Jim Crow Era One of the great challenges in America has been in race relations. The slavery issue created a plague of sorts on American history. The Civil War put an end to slavery but many other race issues were not addressed. It took the efforts of African American leaders like W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington to make the strides needed to bring true equality between the races. There efforts were not in vain. The sacrifices that came with their leadership led to our present day society of equal opportunity. Booker T. Washington believed in improving race relations little by little. He understood that his passionate hope for an equal society was a process that took time. He believed that only those who were extreme would try to bring change by force. His cause was what he referred to as a “struggle”. He was a patient man who was willing to compromise with the white culture of his time. Woodward makes the point in The Strange Career of Jim Crow that Washington was “humble” in his approach. dubois, african, washington, race, american, whites, relations, people, americans, white, leaders, equal, booker, been, approach, worked, web, treated, time, slaves, slavery, say, opportunity, hard, good, done, culture, career, bring, believed, because, wrote, writes, work, woodward