The Ku Klux Period

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The years from 1867 to 1878 I think maybe called the period of Reconstruction This included the time that he spent as a student at Hampton and as a teacher in West Virginia. Two ideas were constantly agitating in the minds of colored people or at least in the mindsof a large part of the race. The craze for Greek and Latin learning and the other was a desire to hold office So there's two things that he's gonna address here this this Desire to learn Greek and Latin he kind of puts that as a whole genre of learning You can probably guess where this is going. Yeah Start at the bottom.

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)^[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.^[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.