Word: booker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of the Tuskegee Institute, spoke on "Negro Progress" in the Living Room of the Union yesterday evening...
...Booker T. Washington on "Negro Progress," in Union Living Room...
...Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of Tuskegee Institute, will lecture on "Negro Progress" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8.15 o'clock...
...Booker T. Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born in Virginia just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July...
November 27.--Booker T. Washington...