On Sept. 18, 1895, Booker T. Washington delivered his famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech, also known as the “Atlanta Exposition Speech” at the opening of Cotton States and International Exposition in ...

Booker T. Washington delivered his famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech, advocating for gradual economic and social advancements in race relations in the Reconstruction-era South. Other figures like W.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The state’s Booker T. Washington Commemorative Commission held a meeting Tuesday to discuss plans for a new monument. Franklin County is where Booker T. Washington was born and ...

Read Part 2 of this story. For many, both black and white, Booker Taliaferro Washington was the most famous black man in America between 1890 and 1915. He was seen as the voice of the Negro in the ...