Washington, Booker T.

Cultural  

1. An African-American educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who headed Tuskegee Institute, a college for African-Americans in Alabama. Washington urged African-Americans to concentrate on economic gains rather than on the pursuit of social and political equality with whites. The best known of his many books is Up from Slavery.

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The name on the deed is educator Margaret Washington, Booker T. Washington’s third wife.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2022

Washington, Booker T., entertained by Roosevelt, 184, 187.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.

Washington, Booker T., declines gift to himself, 276, 277.

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Van Dyke, John Charles

Washington, Booker T., parents of, x, 185; Andrew Carnegie and, xi, 290; Napoleon compared with, x, 211; H. H. Rogers and, xi, 389; Gen. Ruffner and, x, 190.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert

Washington, Booker T., pupil of and successor to Gen. Armstrong; his aims and methods; personal story of, 378; entertained by Pres.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring