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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.
Booker T. Washington giving "Atlanta Compromise" speech Photograph of Booker T. Washington by Frances Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895The Atlanta Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by African-American scholar Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895.
What came to be known as the Atlanta Compromise stemmed from a speech given by Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, to the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 18, 1895. [1] [2] [3] It was first supported [4] and later opposed by W. E. B. Du Bois [5] and other African-American leaders.
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 ...
Hale's Ford is a small unincorporated community located in the northeastern corner of Franklin County, Virginia about 25 miles (40 km) from Roanoke.It is most notable as the location of the Burroughs Farm, the tobacco plantation where the famed educator and orator Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856.
The Booker T. Washington National Monument is a National Monument near the community of Hardy, Virginia, and is located entirely in rural Franklin County, Virginia. [4] It preserves portions of the 207-acre (0.90 km 2 ) tobacco farm on which educator and leader Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856.
— Booker T. Washington “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” — Dr. Mae C. Jemison “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein
Shiloh Baptist Church, 1902. On September 19, 1902, a stampede occurred at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, resulting in the deaths of 115 people.At the time of the crush, 3,000 people were gathered to hear Booker T. Washington address the National Convention of Negro Baptists.