Washington, Booker T.

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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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Washington, Booker T.

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

W Washington, Booker T., 33, 56, 64, 99, 156, 173, 219, 250, 271, 274, 286, 299, 300, 304.

From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by David Grayson

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 George Spring Merriam

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

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke

Washington, Booker T., 4, 54, 65, 68, 69, 88, 92-96.

From The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Benjamin Griffith Brawley