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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Booker T. Washington was an educator and reformer. He was responsible for the early development and success of what is now Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. He became a noted writer and perhaps the most prominent African American leader of his time.
Apr 3, 2014 · Famous Scholars & Educators. Black History. Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and...
May 3, 2024 · Booker T. Washington was an author, educator, orator, philanthropist, and, from 1895 until his death in 1915, the United States’ most famous African American. The tiny school he founded in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1881 is now Tuskegee University, an institution that currently enrolls more than 3,000 students. The most famous of the several books ...
Booker T. Washington, educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for African Americans between 1895 and 1915. In the Atlanta Compromise he articulated the benefits of vocational education.
Mar 5, 2015 · March 5, 20157:03 AM ET. By. Candice Norwood. Enlarge this image. LA Johnson/NPR. Let's face it, Booker T. Washington has a serious image problem. He was perhaps the most influential black...
Booker T. Washington and the 'Atlanta Compromise' | National Museum of African American History and Culture. Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom. Booker T. Washington and the 'Atlanta Compromise' Stories. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © Tuskegee Archives.
Booker T. Washington was born enslaved on the James Burroughs plantation in Hale’s Fort, Franklin County, Virginia in 1856. After the abolishment of chattel slavery in 1863 Booker T. Washington’s mother moved him and his sibling to Malden, West Virginia to live with their stepfather.
