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

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., 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 Elbert Hubbard

Washington, Booker T., Up from Slavery, 2, 148; mentioned, 60, 61.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James

Washington, Booker T., on future of the negro, 9.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

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