Booker T. Washington – US Represented

To Till a Field or Write a Poem? Booker T. Washington’s Legacy

Dana Zimbleman — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 12:03:56 +0000

In Honor of Black History Month Twenty-eight years ago, I landed my first full-time college teaching position at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Originally known as Tuskegee Institute, the school was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 to provide vocational education for southern blacks in the years after Reconstruction. Washington, born a slave in 1856, would overcome enormous odds to become the most influential African American in the United States

James Weldon Johnson and the Promise of America

a featured contributor — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 02:03:07 +0000

A Clarence Page article from February 18, 2023 discusses the current MAGA reaction to the performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the Super Bowl pregame. Claiming that it is the Negro National Anthem and further divides our country disregards the facts. Here’s how it all began. In 1900 James Weldon Johnson—citizen of Jacksonville, Florida, and principal of Stanton Elementary School, got some exciting news. Booker T. Washington, founder