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...support of Northern philanthropists and DuBois decided that a political action group such as the National Association for Colored People would provide a more efficient framework in which to work for Negro advancement. With the departure of DuBois, Negro higher education fell almost totally under the influence of Booker T. Washington. Today the radicalism of DuBois finds its extension in SNCC (significantly, the SNCC Chairmanship is awarded annually to a student who will take off a year from school to work for civil rights "in the field"), while Washinton's emphasis on emulative technical proficiency provides the educational heritage...
...downtown again, this time in a recording studio. In his rich and resonant voice, he sang blues to his own full-chord banjo accompaniment while a friend kept time on the washboard and somebody else played the musical jug. Gus led the group through the old tunes-Long John Booker, The Chicken, Old Blue, and his own Walk Right...
...quote Senator Ellender as saying that Booker T. Washington had a white mother...
...interest of truth, let it be said that Booker himself said that his mother was black, that he never knew his father, who never displayed any interest in him, but believed that his father was a white employee on a neighboring plantation...
...practicing desegregation with their slaves . . . Ethiopia would have nothing if it weren't for the Italians. Africans will probably get somewhere some day, but it'll take time . . . The only black man I know of with the stuff it takes to be a United States Senator was Booker T. Washington, but he had a white mother and is dead now." Then last week Ellender moved on to Southern Rhodesia, where he held a rambling news conference and stopped the press with the comment: "The average African is incapable of leadership except through the assistance of Europeans...