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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.
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 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 ...
King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and advocated for nonviolent protest against racist laws. ... Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia and freed ...
The project was the product of the partnership of Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish-American clothier who became part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and the African-American leader, educator, and philanthropist Booker T. Washington, who was president of the Tuskegee Institute. [1]
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 ...
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."
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]