In my recent essay, “Booker T. Washington and the Promise of Racial Reconciliation,” in the Makers of American Political Thought series, I make the case that Washington deserves a place in the ...

Many of us even committed to memory the first two sentences of perhaps his most famous essay, published in 1903 in a book called The Negro Problem, and edited by Du Bois’s nemesis, Booker T ...

Booker T. Washington’s focus on the development of human capital through better health, education, morality, and enterprise — while not a substitute for protest — seems irrefutably a good ...

Booker T. Washington Library of Congress By the end of the 19th century, 30 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment, African-Americans were still widely treated as an underclass.

Educator Booker T. Washington, head of the Tuskegee Institute, was born this week in 1856. One of his most famous speeches was the Atlanta Exposition Address, which he gave on September 18th, 1895.

Booker T. Washington’s first home was a one-room log cabin. Meals were "a piece of bread here and a scrap of meat there." He wore no shoes until he was 8.

Louis R. Harlan, whose definitive two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington convincingly embraced its subject’s daunting complexities and ambiguities and won both the Bancroft Prize and the ...

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery but rose to national preeminence. He admonished the rich to consider their responsibility to the poor, for the sake of social peace; ...

Booker T. Washington died on November 14, 1915, of “elevated hypertension.” He had been in New York and, upon learning that he had little time left, was able to board a train to Tuskegee to ...