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Considered the founder of the Pan-Africanmovement, Du Bois was a strong opponent of theviews held by the noted Black educator Booker T.Washington. Washington believed that Blacks couldadvance themselves faster through hard than bydemands for equal rights...
Bragg grew up on a street of brownstones knownlocally as Striver's Row. The street, which wasfeatured in the movie "Jungle Fever," is ahistoric haven for upper-middle-class Blackprofessional households; Booker T. Washington IVis rumored to live there...
Membership in both these groups is strictly voluntary and blind to race and gender. The NAACP, in fact, has had both black and white founders, executives, and administrators as well as prominent black opponents, like Booker T. Washington...
...sister's garage and takes care of her hideous baby which looks like it's fashioned from ground beef--is sketched without any of the sentimentality that usually characterizes such portraits. If it were a novel and if Sedaris were British, it would be short-listed fro the Booker Prize...
...first time since Dr. Britton's murder, a dozen protesters looked on as an officer whisked an unidentified man, presumably the doctor's successor, into the building. A potentially more dangerous situation exists in Gulfport, Mississippi, where pro-life activists have vowed to begin a campaign against Dr. Joseph Booker, who they claim is the state's only full- time abortion doctor. It will be the maiden effort of the American Coalition of Life Activists, the group born at the Chicago conference. ACLA's leaders are displaying a nonviolence declaration signed by prospective members. Pro-choice activists and law-enforcement...