Booker T. Washington
Born April 5, 1856 (Franklin County, Virginia)
Died November 14, 1915 (Tuskegee, Alabama)
Educator
Activist
Writer
Booker T. Washington was the first national leader for millions ...
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Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915), African American educator and racial leader, founded Tuskegee Institute for black students. His "Atlanta Compromise" speech made him America's major black lea...
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Back in the days when racism was a huge problem there were two main leaders that stepped into play to help control the issues. Even though they were completely opposite both of them made huge changes ...
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Frederick
Douglass
One of the first black civil rights leaders in
America
,
Douglass
was a slave who escaped the Deep South in 1838 and established himself as a writer and speaker of such elo...
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History lovers lined up Friday to buy a postage stamp recognizing Jamestown as America's first permanent English settlement, one of several weekend events marking the site's 400th anniversary.The c...
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Supporters of a Democratic congressman charged with bribery and money laundering harkened to their civil rights days on Wednesday as they denounced the allegations against U.S. Rep. William Jeffers...
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Supporters of a Democratic congressman charged with bribery and money laundering harkened to their civil rights days on Wednesday as they denounced the allegations against U.S. Rep. William Jeffers...
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Republican John McCain, campaigning for support in Iowa's January caucuses, got an inspirational early return Monday from a fellow military veteran.In the Main Street Cafe in Allison, a man wearing...
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An appreciative mixed crowd of locals and tourists downed their rum punch and munched on fried filets of flying fish at the historic Sunbury Plantation House--one of several venues for the festival...
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A move is underway to put Robert Moses back up on the pedestal where he stood in the 1930’s. If the people backing the rehabilitation of New York’s quondam transportation, housing and r...
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___Lloyd DavisATLANTA (AP) _ Lloyd Davis, who worked with Martin Luther King's widow to build Atlanta's King Center and establish the holiday honoring the civil rights leader, has died, He was 79.D...
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Recorded at Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios in New York, Hard Groove was mixed down in analog to simulate the live show ambiance of a juke joint, tavern, or even a South African shebeen-right ...
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Political Double Talk: Accused of "not being black enough," Sen. Barack Obama chose to pander to black ministers. In a disgraceful speech, he managed to excuse urban rioting while calling it "inexc...
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Washington, Booker T.
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Booker T. Washington Vs. Web Dubois
More than Martin: Others in the Struggle
