James Lee Dickey: An Analysis of One African-American's Leadership in Jim Crow TexasMain MenuJames Lee Dickey: An Analysis of One African American's Leadership in Jim Crow TexasIntroductionSlave No MoreFreedman after Bondage 1865 - 1955African American LeadershipContenders for the TitleJames Lee DickeyThe Leadership of James Lee DickeyLocations in Dr. James Lee Dickey's StoryGoogle locations for Dr. Dickey's BiographyMaureen Grayab288c53aefb942d3e6102c32f4d6e3a10268d3b
Racial Uplift
1media/Tuskegee Institute at the Founding in 1881.jpg2018-03-14T17:28:01-07:00Maureen Grayab288c53aefb942d3e6102c32f4d6e3a10268d3b197011plain2018-03-14T17:28:01-07:00Maureen Grayab288c53aefb942d3e6102c32f4d6e3a10268d3bIn 1881, Booker T. Washington arrived in Tuskegee, Alabama to open a new Negro school in the heart of the black belt, modeled after Hampton Institute, an industrial arts school for Negroes in Virginia. Hampton was created in 1868 by Samuel Armstrong to provide an education that would prepare freed slaves to work in a money economy. (http://www.blackpast.org/aah/hampton-university) General Armstrong asked Washington to continue the mission of Hampton in the deep South, a region known as the black belt, called such both for the color of the soil and the color of the majority population. Due to Tuskegee’s location, Booker T. Washington adopted an accommodationist technique when working with Southern whites. Because he was dependent on white contributions and completely surrounded by armed, belligerent Southerners, he had to convince the dominant race that supporting the Tuskegee Idea was in their best interest. It was an extremely gradual method of gaining equality.