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.

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

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

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

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

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