Booker T. Washington

5 Apr 1856 – 14 Nov 1915

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.

• Up from Slavery
• My larger education
• The Negro in business
• The Negro in the South
• A new Negro for a new century
• African American Literature
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
• Souls of Black Folk & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
• The Booker T. Washington papers
• The Negro Problem
• The story of the Negro
• The story of the Negro