Booker T. Washington

Definition: Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

Noun

1. United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915).

Synonyms: Booker T. Washington

Synonyms: Booker Taliaferro Washington (n), Washington (n). (additional references)

Booker Talifero (T.) Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 15, 1915) was an African-American educator born into slavery in Piedmont, Virginia. After the American Civil War, when the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced, he worked with his mother Jane as a salt-packer in a West Virginia facility, and, when he could, attended school. At 16, he entered the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, a school intended to train black teachers.

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Booker T. Washington later founded and served as president of what is now Tuskegee University, an academic and vocational school for blacks during Reconstruction. He was to become one of America's foremost educators of his time. He also recruited George Washington Carver to teach and conduct research at Tuskegee.

Active in politics, he was routinely consulted by Congressmen and Presidents about the appointment of blacks to political positions. He worked and socialized with many white politicians and notables. He argued that self-reliance was the key to improved conditions for blacks in the US. However, for his advice to blacks to "compromise" and accept segregation, other black activists of the time, such as W. E. B. DuBois, labeled him an "accomodator".

His autobiography, Up from Slavery, was a bestseller.

"Think about it: We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands... Notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, we are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe." - from Up From Slavery

For his contributions to American society, Booker T. Washington was granted honorary degrees from Harvard University and Dartmouth College and on April 5, 1956, the house where he was born was created a United States National Monument. On April 7, 1940, Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

Writings

"The Awakening of the Negro," The Atlantic Monthly, 78 (September, 1896).

"The Case of the Negro," The Atlantic Monthly, 84 (November, 1899).

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (1901)

See also: Slave narrative

References and external links:

Published works

Up from Slavery, Project Gutenberg edition: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2376

"The Awakening of the Negro:" http://www.colorado.edu/English/engl4652/btw.awakening.html

"The Case of the Negro:" http://www.colorado.edu/English/engl4652/btw.case.html

Crosswords: Booker T. Washington

Specialty definitions using "Booker T. Washington": WASHINGTON. (references)

Domain

Usage

Clever

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. (references; author: Booker T. Washington)

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. (references; author: Booker T. Washington)

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. (references; author: Booker T. Washington)

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. (references; author: Booker T. Washington)

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. (references; author: Booker T. Washington)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Black Leadership in America: From Booker T. Washington to Jesse Jackson (Studies in Modern History) (reference) Booker T. Washington (Journey to Freedom) (reference) Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington (Leaders in Action Series) (reference) Unshakable Faith: Booker T. Washington & George Washington Carver (reference) Lift Every Voice: The Lives of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell and James Weldon Johnson (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Booker T. Washington National Monument. Credit: NPS.		Young peoples group--NAACP, Booker T. Washington School, Hamilton Co., Tenn. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Statue of Booker T. Washington by sculptor, Charles Keck to be unveiled April 5th, at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.		Booker T. Washington seated with group of men outside the office of Dr. W.T. White, in Palatka, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Residence of Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Booker T. Washington	Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
	Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
	You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
	No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
	The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
	Man will never reach his destiny until he realizes there is as much dignity in tilling the soil as there is in writing a poem.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Booker T. Washington

Definition: Booker T. Washington