Booker T. Washington

CTL-E-1483 · Person · educator · 1870s-1910s

VERIFIED evidence grade of this record

Educator and author; founder and principal of Tuskegee Institute; delivered the 1895 Atlanta Compromise address; author of Up from Slavery (1901).

The record

• Also known as: Booker Taliaferro Washington

Relationships

• Atlanta Compromise Address — related to
  Washington delivered the Atlanta Compromise address at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta on September 18, 1895.
• George Washington Carver — affiliated with
  Booker T. Washington recruited George Washington Carver to head Tuskegee Institute's Agriculture Department in 1896; Carver taught there 47 years.
• National Negro Business League — founded
  Booker T. Washington founded the National Negro Business League in 1900.
• Tuskegee University — affiliated with
  Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881 and led it as principal until his death in 1915.
• W. E. B. Du Bois — related to
  Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois were the leading rival voices in the post-Reconstruction debate over Black advancement, crystallized by Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise address.

Referenced by

• Arthur Wergs Mitchell — worked under → this record
• George Washington Carver (person) — related to → this record
• Ida B. Wells — related to → this record
• Julius F. Taylor — related to → this record
• Madam C. J. Walker — related to → this record
• Marcus Garvey — related to → this record
• National Negro Business League — founded by → this record
• Respectability politics debates in Black Chicago — related to → this record
• Robert E. Park — related to → this record
• Up from Slavery — authored by → this record
• W. E. B. Du Bois — related to → this record
• William M. Trotter — related to → this record

Sources

• CultureTechLens batch RELP1 research

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