Word: booker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe-things-not-so. He said he was boxing champion at Harvard because he had wished so intensely for that honor. He dodged taxes between New York and Oyster Bay because he was always more or less strapped for money. He tried to bluster out the protests against the Booker T. Washington White House dinner by saying that the Negro leader chanced to be around at lunch time whereas in fact the President had formally invited him for the evening meal. His declaration that all he knew about the Panama revolt was what he read in the papers came close...
Some years ago I heard Booker T. Washington speak to an audience of whites and blacks. One of the jokes of his speech fitly typifies the condition of the Negro race. After excoriating the blacks present for misconduct, Washington turned to the white section of the audience. "You white folks have a great responsibility for the Negro,'' he said. "The Negro is a born imitator; whatever the white man does the Negro will do. We have white cooks and Negro cooks, white doctors, Negro doctors, white lawyers, Negro lawyers. The Negro does whatever the white man does...
...years since Booker Taliaferro Washington, with a shanty, a church, a teacher and 30 students, founded an institution to minister to the Negro's greatest needs: industrial training, agricultural development, inter-racial goodwill. Tuskegee now has 2,000 acres of land, 120 buildings valued at $2,000,000, an endowment of nearly $8,000,000. There is no white man among its 270 teachers and 3,600 students enrolled in high school, college and summer school courses. Because Dr. Washington wished to "put brains and skill into the common occupations of life," Tuskegee has remained an industrial school...
...Dooley" commented on Booker T. Washington's dining at the White House: "I don't mind sayin' that I'd rather ate with a coon thin have wan wait on me. I'd sooner he'd handle his own food thin mine. F'r me, if anny thumb must be in th' gravy, lave it be white if ye please...
...Booker Taliaferro Washington Jr., son of the late great blackamoor educator, was sued by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Hancock Washington, in a cross-complaint against his divorce action, in Los Angeles. She objected to his boasting of his father, taking credit for many of the virtues of the deceased. Each accused the other of infidelity...