Word: bookers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This modest hope was expressed 32 years ago by the late Booker T. Washington. As medicos this week marked the 33rd annual observance of Booker Washington's "National Negro Health Week," his wish had come true: today the life expectancy of U.S. Negroes (North & South) is 57 years...
Today Bethune-Cookman* is a four-year, co-ed college-with 450 students and an $800,000 campus. The emphasis is still on vocational training. Like Booker T. Washington, President Emeritus Bethune thinks Negro education's first job is to teach job skills to Negroes. (Most of Bethune-Cookman's 2,350 graduates are teachers...
Freedom Isn't Divisible. But Mrs. Bethune has a faith in political action that Booker T. would never have tolerated. Says she: "Without the Negroes' exercise of the franchise, neither the white nor the black can be free." Eloquent Mary Bethune has been stumping the country for years against the poll tax, for the anti-lynching bill and the FEPC. Sometimes her good friend Eleanor Roosevelt shares the platform...
...Booker T. Washington became the (first Negro ever elected to the Hall of Fame.* The onetime slave, pioneer in Negro education and autobiographer (Up From Slavery) received more votes from the 93 Hall of Fame electors than any of the other three newcomers: Georgia-born Poet Sidney Lanier, Revolutionary Pamphleteer Thomas Paine, Yellow Fever Fighter Walter Reed...
...citizenship," "the same racial equality at the ballot box that we have at the income-tax window." But on the "how" of getting these things, Editor Logan's 14 writers split basically into two camps, choosing roughly between the methods of two famous Negro leaders: conservative, cautious, compromising Booker T. Washington and politically aggressive Frederick Douglass. To followers of the former, "changing public opinion is the mightiest weapon for the Negro's deliverance." To the latter's disciples, the Negro's future task is to give "life, reality and force to [the] social and political principles...