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Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
Tuskegee & Its People is a 1905 book edited by American educator Booker T Washington.Its full title is Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements.It has been printed in various editions and is available for study online via Project Gutenberg.
Throughout the book, Washington refers to Tuskegee, a university founded by himself and others. It was a historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama. In The Future of an American Negro, Booker writes that the university is, "placing men and women of intelligence, religion, modesty, conscience, and skill in every community in the South."
Character Building is a book published in Booker T. Washington. It is a collection of talks on self-development given to students and faculty at the Tuskegee Institute he was leading. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, published the 1902 edition. Phoenix Publications, New York, reissued the book in 2005. [1]
The following 35 pages use this file: African American cinema; Atlanta Exposition Speech; Booker T. Washington; Frances Benjamin Johnston; Talk:Booker T. Washington/Archive 2
The National Negro Business League (NNBL) was established in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900 by Booker T. Washington. The effort was supported by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie . [ citation needed ] The organization was formally incorporated in 1901 in New York , and established 320 chapters across the United States.
Louis Rudolph Harlan (July 13, 1922 – January 22, 2010) was an American academic historian who wrote a two-volume biography of the African-American educator and social leader Booker T. Washington and edited several volumes of Washington materials.
It was the beginning of a fund raising drive started by Booker T. Washington for the Tuskegee Institute with a goal of making up the annual operating shortfall, plant improvements, and creating an endowment. There were three distinct appeals for the fundraising: adding an annual income of $90,000 a year, creating an endowment of $1,800,000, and ...