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Washington’s beliefs and theories regarding an African American’s best interest in the post-Reconstruction era was that Washington wanted people who are illiterate, impoverished and abandonment. In the passage in the second stanza, last paragraph it had stated, “Washington believed that the best interests of black people in the post-Reconstruction era could be realized through education in the crafts and industrial skills and the cultivation of the virtues of patience, enterprise, and thrift….most whom illiterate…., to temporarily abandon….” So basically having an education to any person that was shunned out of their community or who was illiterate. Furthermore, in the play Mrs. Johnson had quoted of what Booker T. Washington had stated in

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