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Sculpture of Booker T. Washington at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. 1951 Carver-Washington commemorative half dollar Booker T. Washington was so acclaimed as a public leader that the period of his activity, from 1880 to 1915, has been called the Age of Booker T. Washington. [ 58 ]
September 16 - Roosevelt and the cabinet escort McKinley's body to Washington, D.C. September 20 - Roosevelt holds his first cabinet meeting. [2] September 28 - The Battle of Balangiga occurs in the Philippines. October 16 - Roosevelt meets Booker T. Washington at the White House. [3] October 17 - Roosevelt gives the White House its official ...
Booker T. Washington, the most important black leader of the day, was the first African American to be invited to dinner at the White House, dining there on October 16, 1901. [76] Washington, who had emerged as an important adviser to Republican politicians in the 1890s, favored accommodation with the Jim Crow laws that instituted racial ...
Booker T. Washington: volume 1: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856–1901; pp 304–21. A major scholarly biography. Norrell, Robert J, 2011. Up from history: The life of Booker T. Washington Harvard University Press; pp 243–63. A major scholarly biography. Norrell, Robert J. (Spring 2009).
The Cotton States and International Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 1895. [1] The exposition was designed "to foster trade between southern states and South American nations as well as to show the products and facilities of the region to the rest of the nation and Europe."
First African American to be portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp: Booker T. Washington [156] First African-American flag officer: BG Benjamin O. Davis Sr., U.S. Army [157] [Note 9] First African American to earn a doctorate in library science: Eliza Atkins Gleason, from the University of Chicago [158]
The 2023 Booker Prize was awarded after violence involving far-right groups erupted in Dublin last week, with Garda cars, buses and trams set alight, and shops looted and damaged.
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of the American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and ...