Booker T. Washington's The future of the American Negro

The basics that I got out of the Booker T. Washington text, was that he was a person that really believed in agriculture as the light to the golden tunnel. He basically saw agriculture as the way the Blacks at that time should have seen as the thing to invest and involve their time into. I get that black people at that time were not that independent, from they way Washington conveyed his text. I got that Blacks at that time in history were either to follow one out of to ideologies. One ideology was that of Washington's, which was use agriculture to make our way. The other was that of Dubois,who felt that education was the best way to get your way into mainstream society and stay there. I wonder how were people to act if they neither wanted to go to school, and neither wanted to work in the agricultural field? How did those people feel? Those are the biggest questions that I get out of reading both the Dubois and Washington texts and they are questions that I do not have a answer to.