Word: booker
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Died. Emmett Jay Scott, 84, distinguished Negro leader, longtime (18 years) secretary to Booker T. Washington, onetime (during World War I) special assistant to Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, secretary-treasurer of Howard University (1919-34), author of The American Negro in the World War (1919), coauthor (with Washington) of Tuskegee and Its People; in Washington...
...heavily Negro southwest Chicago, a similar milestone was passed last week when Normal Park Baptist Church installed the Rev. Merrel D. Booker, a Negro, and the Rev. Fred R. Tiffany, white...
From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the turn of the century, presidents, Congress and prevailing public opinion in the North agreed to leave the "Negro Problem" in the hands of "intelligent Southern white men." Booker T. Washington, in his Atlanta "Compromise" Address, September 18, 1895, greatly strengthened this concept. The fact that a Negro opposed "artificial forcing" and urged reliance on "Southern write friends" made it one of the main currents of American thought. Hodding Carter, one of the best known contemporary Southern white liberals, has considerable support in the North when he insists "Leave us alone." There...
...entitled by his ability and capacity to go, a student of my race, fresh and cleanly dressed, courteous, without threat or violence, to seek admission."Among antagonistic whites, Faulkner asks himself, "Would you find it hard not to hate them?" His reply: "I would repeat to myself Booker T. Washington's words ... 'I will let no man, no matter what his color, ever make me hate him.' . . . Hypothetical Negro Faulkner's big decision: "I would be a member of the N.A.A.C.P., since nothing else in our U.S. culture has yet held out to my race that...
From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the turn of the century, presidents, Congress and prevailing public opinion in the North agreed to leave the "Negro Problem" in the hands of "intelligent Southern white men." Booker T. Washington in his Atlanta "Compromise" Address, September 18, 1895, greatly strengthened this concept. The fact that a Negro opposed "artificial forcing" and urged reliance on "Southern write friends" made it one of the main currents of American though. Hodding Carter, one of the best known contemporary Southern white liberals, has considerable support in the North when he insists "Leave us alone." There...