In an effort to diversify the economy in the years after the Civil War, Southern industry does expand. However, new jobs in the Alabama steel industry or the textile industries in the Carolinas are generally limited to white workers. Some blacks do manage to acquire property, establish small businesses and enter professions. The key is education, and for a time the major spokesman for the importance of education for his race is Booker T. Washington, founder of The Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. His emphasis on economic independence, on building a position of power rather than demanding political equality, is criticized by W. E. B. Dubois and Ida Wells.

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Reconstruction, Southern economy, economic diversification, industrial expansion, racial limitations on job opportunities, black small businesses, education as key, Booker T. Washington, The Tuskegee Institute, economic independence, political equality, W.E.B. Dubois, Ida Wells, Civil War and Reconstruction, The

African-American History, American History, American Studies, U. S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Unfinished Nation, The

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