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The National Negro Business League (NNBL) was an American organization founded in Boston in 1900 by Booker T. Washington to promote the interests of African-American businesses. [1] [2] [3] The mission and main goal of the National Negro Business League was "to promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro."
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 (seated second from left) founded the National Negro Business League, in Boston in 1900 to promote African-American business interests. By 1905 it had 320 chapters. By 1915, it had more than 600 chapters in 34 states. In 1966, it was renamed the National Business League, and relocated to Washington, D.C., where it remains ...
Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and ...
Booker T. Washington, at the height of the Movement's activities in 1905 and 1906, spoke to large and approving crowds across much of the country. [78] The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot hurt Washington's popularity, giving the Niagarans fuel for their attacks on him. [ 79 ]
First African American to be portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp: Booker T. Washington [157] First African-American flag officer: BG Benjamin O. Davis Sr., U.S. Army [158] [Note 9] First African American to earn a doctorate in library science: Eliza Atkins Gleason, from the University of Chicago [159]
The Negro in Business is a book by Booker T. Washington published by Hertel, Jenkins & Company in 1907. [1] A copy is held by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture [2] and the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Perhaps the best student of Armstrong's Hampton-style education was Booker T. Washington. [18] After coming to the school in 1872, Washington immediately began to adopt Armstrong's teaching and philosophy. Washington described Armstrong as "the most perfect specimen of man, physically, mentally and spiritually the most Christ-like…."