Dear Dr. Don, Please explain the difference between a 30-year fixed and a 30-year FHA loan. My understanding is that the conventional fixed-rate loan requires 20 percent down and the FHA loan does not.
Transcript of Booker T. Washington and The Progressive Era of 1890-1912. Booker T. Washington and The Progressive Era of 1890-1912. Washington's contributions to the Progressive Era. Booker T. Washington acted as a black leader in the Progressive Era, fighting against racism for blacks. He was a dominant leader, and he also had the advantage of getting the presidents on his side. Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in Hale's Ford, Virginia.
W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington The most influential public critique of Booker T. Washingtonâs policy of racial accommodation and gradualism came in 1903 when black leader and intellectual W.E.B. DuBois published an essay in his collection The Souls of Black Folk with the title âOf Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.â DuBois rejected Washingtonâs willingness to avoid rocking the racial boat, calling instead for political power, insistence on civil rights, and the higher education of Negro youth.