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.

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 ...

Booker T. Washington was born an enslaved person, but grew up to become the founding principal and first president of Tuskegee University, a historically Black school in Alabama, in 1895. Atlanta’s ...

Booker T. Washington was known as one of the great African American reformers of the late 19th century. He founded the renowned Tuskegee Institute meant to help Black people freed from slavery become ...