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Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington 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.
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business · American educator, author, orator and adviser (1856–1915) · educator · writer · autobiographer · pedagogue · businessperson · politician · human rights defender · teacher · civil rights advocate · social reformer · also Booker T. Washington, Booker Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington, Washington
Born 5 April 1856 · Died 14 November 1915 · Q319871
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Booker T. Washington, Speech, 1895
Booker T. Washington reading an excerpt from his 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech
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2026· 5 entries
Public attention spiked: 26,095 Wikipedia readers in one day, 23.5× the usual 1,110, with 9 article edits. Editors noted: Added {{More citations needed}} tag
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Public attention spiked: 4,103 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 1,110, with 0 article edits.
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Pensacola News Journal: Booker T. Washington girls basketball ends 25-year Final Four drought
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Pensacola News Journal: Booker T. Washington boys soccer falls to Beachside in regional final
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2025· 4 entries
WVEC: Mike Privott named head football coach at Booker T. Washington High School
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Chattanooga Times Free Press: Booker T. Washington State Park public input session postponed until Jan. 13
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KSLA: Booker T. Washington hosts Chrome & Class: Lions Pride Car Show to celebrate 75 years
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Yahoo: Booker T. Washington High celebrates 75th homecoming week
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2022· 1 entry
To protect the house as its original status
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2000· 1 entry
West Virginia State University (WVSU; then West Va
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1956· 1 entry
The hundredth anniversary of Washington's birth, the house where he was born in Franklin County, Virginia was designated as the Booker T
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1951· 1 entry
Wrote of Washington, "The businessman's gospel of free enterprise, competition, and laissez faire never had a more loyal exponent
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1949· 1 entry
The anthology radio drama Destination Freedom recapped his life in "Up from Slavery", written by Richard Durham
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1946· 1 entry
Was honored on the first coin to feature an African American, the Booker T
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1940· 1 entry
Washington became the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp
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1934· 1 entry
Robert Russa Moton, Washington's successor as president of Tuskegee University, arranged an air tour for two African-American aviators
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1932· 1 entry
These newer facilities could accommodate one-third of all African-American children in Southern U
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1915· 10 entries
Died 1915-11-14.
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Tuskegee had grown to encompass more than 100 well-equipped buildings, roughly 1,500 students, 200 faculty members teaching 38 trades and professions, and an endowment of approximately $2 million (~$44
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Rosenwald established the Rosenwald Fund in 1917, primarily to serve African-American students in rural areas throughout the South
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Came under heavy criticism for accommodating white supremacy, despite his claims that his long-term goal was to end the disenfranchisement of African Americans, the vast majority of whom still lived in the South
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The civil rights movement of the 1950s took a more active and progressive approach, which was also based on new grassroots organizations based in the South
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“We have cleared the forests, reclaimed the land, and are building cities, railroads, and great institutions.”
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“In all things social as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
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“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
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“There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.”
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“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
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1913· 1 entry
And 1914, and overseen by Tuskegee architects and staff; the model proved successful
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1912· 2 entries
Rosenwald was asked to serve on the Board of Directors of Tuskegee Institute, a position he held for the remainder of his life
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Rosenwald provided funds to Tuskegee for a pilot program to build six new small schools in rural Alabama
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1906· 1 entry
Lectured at Carnegie Hall in New York in the Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary Lecture
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1901· 1 entry
It became a bestseller—remaining the best-selling autobiography of an African American for over sixty years—and had a major effect on the African-American community and its friends and allies
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1896· 2 entries
Followed by an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College
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When Washington reviewed the study conducted by George Washington Carver about the infection plaguing the soybean crop he invited Carver to head the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee, where they became close friends
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1893· 1 entry
Washington married Margaret James Murray
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1891· 1 entry
Lobbied the West Virginia legislature to locate the newly authorized West Virginia Colored Institute (today West Virginia State University) in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia near Charleston
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1888· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1888–1891).
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1885· 1 entry
The widower Washington married again, to Olivia A
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1881· 3 entries
Initially using a room donated by Butler Chapel A
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The Hampton Institute president Samuel C
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Was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, an institute for black higher education
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1877· 1 entry
At the end of the Reconstruction era, many paramilitary groups worked to suppress black voting by violence
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1856· 2 entries
Born 1856-04-05.
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In Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed when U
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