Who Was Booker T. Washington?
To learn more about Booker T. Washington, the man for whom our school is named,
explore some of the books and videos in the school library, for example :
There are many internet resources on Booker T. Washington, including biographical
information, copies of his writings and speeches, photographs, and letters may
be found using a search engine such as google.com. A few sources are listed
below:
African American Odyssey: The Booker T. Washington Era (Part 1)
The
Booker T. Washington Era. Detailed Library of Congress exhibit on Washington's
life, work, and influence on American culture. Part 1: African American Soldiers
| Education, Economic and Social Progress Part 2 ... The Booker T. Washington
Era: Part 1 | Part 2.
(memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart6.html) - 37k - 06 Apr 2002 - Cached
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Link to University of Illinois Press. Includes Image gallery, text, and writings
by and about Booker T. Washington.
www.historycooperative.org/btw/ - 9k - 06 Apr 2002 - Cached - Similar pages
Image of Booker T. Washington and President Roosevelt from: (http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/gallery/v8_01.html)
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Booker T. Washington. 1856-1915, Educator. ...
Life and times of Booker T. Washington.
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... BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ? Educator. Born a slave and deprived of any early education,
Booker Taliaferro Washington went on to become America's foremost black ...
Description: Detailed profile of Washington from Who2.com.
Category: Arts > Literature > ... > American > 19th Century >
Washington, Booker T.
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Stamp on Black History Home Page Menu.
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Up from slavery An autobiography, Booker T. Washington's influential
autobiography. Full text online.
www.alcyone.com/max/lit/slavery/ - 14k - Cached - Similar pages
Evaluating the Lives and Legacies of Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois. ...
www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/washdubois/btwwebd.html - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
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Booker T. Washington arose as essentially the leader not of one race but of two ...
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The Booker T. Washington Papers Online is a completely free and searchable web
site designed to provide researchers worldwide with full access to the thousands
of pages comprising this 14-volume printed work, originally published by the
University of Illinois Press. In addition to easy navigation and searching across
he multiple volumes, the Web site will allow page-by-page local printing via
Adobe Acrobat PDF
http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/info.html
To visit the National Monument of Bookter T. Washington online.
http://www.nps.gov/bowa/index.htm
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/bookertwashington/bookertwashington.html
On September 18, 1895, African-American spokesman and leader Booker T. Washington
spoke before a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International
Exposition in Atlanta. His "Atlanta Compromise" address, as it came to be called,
was one of the most important and influential speeches in American history.
Although the organizers of the exposition worried that "public sentiment was
not prepared for such an advanced step", they decided that inviting a black
speaker would impress Northern visitors with the evidence of racial progress
in the South. Washington soothed his listeners’ concerns about ‘uppity’ blacks
by claiming that his race would content itself with living "by the productions of our hands".
Source: Louis R. Harlan, ed.,The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 3, (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1974), 583-587.( http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/)
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/blacked/washaw.htm
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Part 1: African American Soldiers | Education, Economic and Social Progress Part 2
The 1870s to the start of World War I, the period when African American educator
Booker T. Washington was gaining prominence, was also a difficult time for African
Americans. The vote proved elusive and civil rights began to vanish through
court action. Lynching, racial violence, and slavery's twin children peonage
and sharecropping arose as deadly quagmires on the path to full citizenship.
After Reconstruction ended in 1877, the federal government virtually turned
a deaf ear to the voice of the African American populace.
Yet in this era blacks were educated in unprecedented numbers, hundreds received
degrees from institutions of higher learning, and a few, like W.E.B. DuBois
and Carter G. Woodson, went on for the doctorate. While only a small percentage
of the black population had been literate at the close of the Civil War, by
the turn of the twentieth century, the majority of all frican Americans were
literate. The Library of Congress houses the papers of three presidents of Tuskegee
Institute: Booker T. Washington, Robert Russa Moton, and Frederick Douglass
Patterson, and other important manuscripts and photographs relating to the establishment,
operations, aspirations, and success of historically black colleges and universities.
Also at this time, African American artistic genius in music, painting, sculpture,
literature, and dance became more evident to white society at large. Some of
the artists of this period, including poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Fisk
Jubilee Singers, won international acclaim. This section of the exhibit demonstrates
the progress of blacks in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
This period has been called the "nadir" of black history because so many gains
earned after the Civil War seemed lost by the time of World War I, and because
racial violence and lynching reached an all time high. However, both the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Urban
League (NUL) were founded by blacks and whites during this time. The papers
of both of these major civil rights organizations, which are among the holdings
in the Library's Manuscript Division, document the unswerving efforts on the
part of blacks and their white allies to insure that the nation provide "freedom
and justice to all."
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http://www.ushistory.net/washington2.html
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"Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910 - Booker Taliaferro
Washington (1856-1915)" A Brief Biography
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