The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...
Very bright and ready to go,” said Larry Rowe, author of Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood ... integrating this town. It was like watching a movie with the ...
But Washington's philosophy of racial uplift was bitterly opposed by some African American intellectuals, most notably W.E.B. Du Bois. In 1903, Du Bois published the essay, "Of Mr. Booker T.