Noun
United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)
Source: WordNetDu Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached. C. L. R. James
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation. C. L. R. James
Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. John Legend
Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Booker T. Washington were also visitors. Source: Internet
Their work resulted in students from Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School and Savannah’s Groves High School volunteering at polling stations during November’s general election, with plans to return for Georgia’s runoff election on Jan. Source: Internet
Booker T. Washington will have a new head football coach next season. Source: Internet