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 ...

Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass and great-great-grandson of Booker T. Washington, will deliver the keynote address for the Quasquicentennial Anniversary ...

-- From "The Awakening of the Negro" by Booker T. Washington; published in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1896. My earliest recollection is of a small one-room log hut on a large slave plantation in ...

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 ...