4 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)
- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.Chapter 3 (0% in)
- Easily the most striking thing in the history of the American Negro since 1876 is the ascendancy of Mr. Booker T. Washington.Chapter 3 (1% in)
- But Booker T. Washington arose as essentially the leader not of one race but of two,—a compromiser between the South, the North, and the Negro.Chapter 3 (46% in)
- ...to all, and especially to those whose mistreatment caused the war; but if that reconciliation is to be marked by the industrial slavery and civic death of those same black men, with permanent legislation into a position of inferiority, then those black men, if they are really men, are called upon by every consideration of patriotism and loyalty to oppose such a course by all civilized methods, even though such opposition involves disagreement with Mr. Booker T. Washington.Chapter 3 (80% in)
There are no more uses of "Booker T. Washington" in The Souls of Black Folk.
Typical Usage
(best examples)