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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.
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.
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 ...
The talented tenth is a term that designated a leadership class of African Americans in the early 20th century. Although the term was created by white Northern philanthropists, it is primarily associated with W. E. B. Du Bois, who used it as the title of an influential essay, published in 1903.
Despite those obstacles, McMahon says Randolph went on to become one of America’s greatest educators, on par with Booker T. Washington, the civil rights leader who founded Tuskegee University ...
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."