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Booker T. Washington: Never to be forgotten

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From: Tri-State Defender
Date: 20010411
Author:Larsha, William

Larsha, William
Tri-State Defender
04-11-2001
Booker T. Washington: Never to be forgotten

While it is noble that we extol Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April, we
should not -- and we must not -- forget one of America's greatest
socio-economic thinkers, especially in relations to the survival and
progress of African Americans: Booker Taliaferro Washington -- Born April
5, 1856; died 1915.

Booker T. Washington saw "the Negro" (African Americans) as a new people,
on a new land, in a new country: a race of African ancestry; a people
uniquely assimilated in European, Asian, and African customs, folklore, ...

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