"President Booker T. Washington, My Dear Sir, Harvard Universitydesires to confer on you at the approaching Commencementan honorary degree;but it is our custom to confer degrees only on gentlemen who are...
This file is only slightly modified from the Internet Wiretap Etext. Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington This volume is dedicated to my Wife Margaret James Washington And to my Brother John H. Washington Whose patience, fidelity, an
History of educationEthnic studies A magnet school and desegregation| A case study of Booker T. Washington High School1975--1980 OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY Kenneth Stern FerrellJames AdrianScope and Method of Study. In 1976 the Supreme Court accepted magnet schools as viable parts of the criteria ...
“I created an empire in my thoughts long before I began to win an empire in reality.” The founding principal and president of Tuskegee (Institute) University, Booker T. Washington, tells of not having many flesh-and-blood examples of “success” due to both his poverty and enslavement. ...
when longtime New Jersey Sen.Frank Lautenbergdied in office. Booker easily won aspecial electionthat year, and one year later, he won the regularly scheduled election. When we spoke, he was in the throes of a tour for his new book, which is calledUnited: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground...