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Booker T. Washington
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African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)
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Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856–1915) was an African American educator, writer, and pedagogue who held citizenship in the United States. Born into slavery, he was educated at Hampton University and served as an employer at Tuskegee University. A member of the Republican Party, Washington wrote in English and is noted for works including *Up From Slavery*, *Address of Booker T. Washington*, *Working with the hands*, and *The story of the Negro*.
Washington was married to Margaret Murray Washington. His archives are held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He died in Tuskegee on November 14, 1915, from cardiovascular disease.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 Apr 1856
- Died
- 14 Nov 1915
- Works
- 294
Top works
- The Negro Problem
- Up From Slavery
- Address of Booker T. Washington
- Working with the hands
- The story of the Negro
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 632
- Total plays
- 2,256
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,798x
- The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues
· 2020 · cited 5,356x
- The International HapMap Project
· 2003 · cited 4,925x
- The 2019 WHO classification of tumours of the digestive system
· 2019 · cited 3,479x
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Quotes
- “Character, not circumstances, makes the man. It is more important that we be prepared for voting than that we vote, more important that we be prepared to hold office than that we hold office, more important that we be prepared for the highest recognition than that we be recognized.”
- “I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.”
- “There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.”
- “The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.”
- “Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”
- “In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of death
- Tuskegee
- Occupation
- human rights defender
- Position held
- head teacher
- Educated at
- Hampton University
- Employer
- Tuskegee University
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895.jpg
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- date of death
- 1915-11-14
- date of birth
- 1856-04-05
- Commons category
- Booker T. Washington
- topic's main category
- Category:Booker T. Washington
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- social classification
- slave
- cause of death
- cardiovascular disease
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Booker Taliaferro Washington
- Commons Creator page
- Booker T. Washington
- name in native language
- Booker Taliaferro Washington
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed when U.S. troops reached the area during the Civil War. As a young man, Booker T. Washington worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and attended college at Wayland Seminary. In 1881, he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, an institute for black higher education. He expanded the college, enlisting students in construction of buildings. Work at the college was considered fundamental to students' larger education. He attained national prominence for his Atlanta Address of 1895, which attracted the attention of politicians and the public. Washington played a dominant role in black politics, winning wide support in the black community of the South and among more liberal whites. Washington wrote an autobiography, Up from Slavery, in 1901, which became a major text. In that year, he dined with Theodore Roosevelt at the White House, which was the first time a black person publicly met the president on equal terms. After an illness, he died in Tuskegee, Alabama on November 14, 1915.
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