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- Booker T. Washington
- Hampton University
- Frendly and Relationship
- Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in Hale's Ford, 5 aprile 1856 Tuskegee, 14 novembre 1915. He was born from a humble family.
- Atlanta Exposition Speech
- in 1902 T. Washngton took up the post of professor of social policy at hampton university. Washington believed that education played a crucial role for African American citizens to move up the social ladder and economic structures of the United States. He became nationally famous as a spokesperson and leader of the black community.
- Speech
- Washington's philosophy and his tireless work on the problem of education helped him gain the moral and economic support of many of the greatest white philanthropists of the day. He became friends with men like tycoon Henry Huttleston Rogers, owner of Standard Oil, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company Julius Rosenwald, and George Eastman, the founding inventor of Kodak.
- Afetr him
- «In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.»
- He called for black progress through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to challenge directly the Jim Crow segregation and the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South.
- Washington's legacy has been controversial in the civil rights community. After his death in 1915, he came under heavy criticism for accommodationism towhite supremacy, despite his claims that his long-term goal was to end the disenfranchisement of African Americans, the vast majority of whom still lived in theSouth.
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