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Booker T. Washington

from The Milquetoast Manual by Carpal Tullar

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Born at Hale's Ford, Virginia, April 1856 his father an unknown white man
His mother was a slave on the Burroughs' land
Who educated poverty
Having risen up from slavery in 1865
Who built his people up in industry
And became one of the greatest black Americans alive
Booker Taliaferro Washington was a celebrated diligent man
With his Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
A steady revolution had been planned
He'd put the black in American

A visionary reconstructionist
Giving everything he had to bringing up the southern black
Known as the great accomodationist
He knew sacrificing early on would later pay them back
From General Armstrong at the Hampton institute
He learned the lessons he would learn to pay them back
Booker Taliaferro Washington
With book or trowel in his hand
Making it so people could enjoy a civil life
Booker T. was a productive man
He'd put the black in American

"A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel.
From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, water, water
we die of thirst! The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back,
Cast down your bucket where you are."

When he gave the Atlanta Compromise to an integrated audience September 95
He urged his brothers to back off from civil rights
Cast down your buckets where you are for the betterment he cried
In all things that are purely social we can be separate as the fingers
Yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress
Critics like Du Bois declared he had made not much of a stand
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Had a controversial fight on his hands
His willingness to tolerate oppression from the whites
Made him difficult to understand
But Booker T. had a patient plan

Success is measured not so much by the position one has reached in life
As by the obstacles he's overcome
You will find that there are two ways to exert a person's strength
One is pushing down the other's pulling up

Booker Taliaferro Washington was a celebrated diligent man
He won the nation over but to say the very least
Booker T. was a focused highly optimistic man
Opposed by the Ku Klux Klan
The finest orator in all the land
With oration in high demand
Booker T. had a patient plan
He put the black in American

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from The Milquetoast Manual, released January 5, 2008

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