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1 day ago · Booker T. Washington. 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 . Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed ...
- Atlanta Compromise
What came to be known as the Atlanta Compromise stemmed from...
- The Man Farthest Down
The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in...
- Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU; formerly known as the...
- Hale's Ford, Virginia
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About...
- Margaret Murray Washington
Margaret James Murray. Margaret Murray Washington (March 9,...
- Wayland Seminary
Wayland Seminary was the Washington, D.C., school of the...
- Up From Slavery
First edition. Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of...
- Niagara Movement
Harvey A. Thompson — H. A. Thompson (July 24, 1863 – ),...
- Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an...
- Atlanta Compromise
1 day ago · Recorded October 1931. Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover ...
1 day ago · Muhammad bin Tughluq was renowned as the wealthiest man in the Muslim world at that time. He patronized various scholars, Sufis, qadis, viziers, and other functionaries in order to consolidate his rule. On the strength of his years of study in Mecca, Ibn Battuta was appointed a qadi, or judge, by the sultan. [90]
- The Islamic Marco Polo, Ibn battuta al-Tanji
- Rihla
1 day ago · Baton Rouge ( / ˌbætən ˈruːʒ / ⓘ BAT-ən ROOZH; French: Bâton-Rouge, pronounced [bɑtɔ̃ ʁuʒ]; Spanish: Bastón Rojo) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it had a population of 227,470 as of 2020; [4] it is the seat of Louisiana's most populous parish (county ...
1 day ago · Pennsylvania ( / ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪniə / ⓘ, lit. 'Penn's forest country' ), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie ), [7] is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
- 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)
- 9 Democrats, 8 Republicans (list)
1 day ago · 1942(25th of Iyar, 5702): Four days after the Ghetto at Radun was sealed off, 3,400 Jews were marched to the outskirts of town and shot, row-by-row, into ditches dug by other Jews. 1942: Fifty-six-year-old Ludmila Pickova was transported today from Prague to Terezin.
1 day ago · Tucson (/ ˈ t uː s ɒ n / TOO-son; O'odham: Cuk Ṣon) is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and is home to the University of Arizona.It is the second-largest city in Arizona behind Phoenix, with a population of 542,629 in the 2020 United States census, while the population of the entire Tucson metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is 1,043,433.
