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 ...

Object Details Created by C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 Subject of Booker T. Washington, American, 1856 - 1915 Description A black-and-white print of a bust-length portrait of Booker T.

Blackstage podcast — which recently featured a historic conversation between the descendants of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois — is not only lifting up the voices of Black leaders, but ...

Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential Black leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are a few facts about this innovative educator.

The contrasting theories of vocational education by W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington have been debated over the past century. Courtland Milloy says in the 21st century, the best path for ...

We examine Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois philosophies, their roles within black history, compare their legacies and how it would hold up today.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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