Booker T. Washington, left, and W.E.B. Du Bois, right, were two intellectual Black Americans who had differing aspirations for their people in the early 20th Century. (AFRO Archive Photo) ...

Theodore R. Johnson’s Feb. 29 op-ed, “These giants of Black history are forever linked,” noted that Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois differed widely on the type of education they ...

In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, for our 50 Great Teachers project NPR Ed decided to look back at his leadership. ... Washington And DuBois — In Context.

In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, for our 50 Great Teachers project NPR Ed decided to look back at his leadership. ... Washington And DuBois — In Context.

Booker T. Washington--the prototypical sellout, we are told. Black History 101 pits him against a W.E.B. Du Bois nobly crusading against "the color line" while Washington delighted white backers ...

From left: Booker T. Washington in 1894 and W.E.B. Du Bois in 1949. (AP) In 1895, in Atlanta, the Cotton States and International Exposition put a spotlight on the New South to showcase an ...

The famous schoolbook, written by Noah Webster, was "almost like a Bible lesson, a civic lesson and a reading lesson rolled into one," says Smock, author of Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in ...

In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, for our 50 Great Teachers project NPR Ed decided to look back at his leadership.

In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, for our 50 Great Teachers project NPR Ed decided to look back at his leadership.