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Artist: Martin Puryear: titled- "ladder for Booker T. Washington"
Architect: Tadao Ando for Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Booker T Washington High School, now just known as Washington High School was the first African American Public School in the state of Georgia. The school is located in Atlanta and opened its doors in 1927. The school is named for Booker T Washington who was an educator and civil rights leader who founded Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Al. The most notable alumni to graduate from this school is Dr Martin Luther King. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 18, 1986.
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Church records show that First Congregational Church got its start in the log cabin of its founder, James T. Gifford. It’s a landmark that existed only three blocks from the current church structure.
The church’s present building – its third- was constructed at the corners of Chicago and Center Streets in 1889 at a cost of $35,000. Constructed with red pressed brick and brownstone trim, the interior was laid out as a “church in the round,” or the “Akron” style popular at the time.
The sanctuary included an organ with over 250 pipes – an instrument that still ranks as one of the largest in the Fox Valley. The large seating capacity of First Congregational Church soon made it a community auditorium on par with the current Hemmens Cultural Center.
Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and John Dewey were among the notables who spoke in the building. The sanctuary also served as the sight of high school graduations and other community functions.
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National Negro Business League Executive Committee
[approximately 1910]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Photo shows African American leaders, including Booker T. Washington seated second from left.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Format: Glass negatives.
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Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
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Call Number: LC-B2- 2053-15
Part of the set Famous Faces in Black History.
For more on the African American experience visit Discover Black Heritage.
"When the Train Comes Along”: Booker T. Washington at the Tampa Bay Casino
"Stopping in Tampa during his 1912 Florida speaking tour, educator and activist Booker T. Washington saw a city divided. In the preceding years, local and state legislation had barred African Americans from political participation and enforced segregation on trains, streetcars, and other public accommodations.
For one evening, Washington’s address at the Tampa Bay Casino brought together the Cigar City’s white, black, and Latin populations in a single location. Ironically, this unprecedented event only highlighted the community fissures that would define the era of Jim Crow. “When the Train Comes Along”: Booker T. Washington at the Tampa Bay Casino explores those fractured relations while highlighting the influence of Washington on the strategies adopted by black women and men to live with dignity in this period of Tampa’s history."
"When the Train Comes Along”: Booker T. Washington at the Tampa Bay Casino
Cigar manufacturing was a major business in the Tamp employing black and white residents. The bulk of the cigar workers were Cuban immigrants.
Margaret Murray Washington, third wife of Booker T. Washington, was an American educator who was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University. She also led women's clubs, including the Tuskegee Woman's Club and the National Federation of Afro-American Women.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (5 Apr 1856-1915)
Also seen in the Chicagoist:
chicagoist.com/2015/04/25/around_town_globe_trotting.php#...
Church records show that First Congregational Church got its start in the log cabin of its founder, James T. Gifford. It’s a landmark that existed only three blocks from the current church structure.
The church’s present building – its third- was constructed at the corners of Chicago and Center Streets in 1889 at a cost of $35,000. Constructed with red pressed brick and brownstone trim, the interior was laid out as a “church in the round,” or the “Akron” style popular at the time.
The sanctuary included an organ with over 250 pipes – an instrument that still ranks as one of the largest in the Fox Valley. The large seating capacity of First Congregational Church soon made it a community auditorium on par with the current Hemmens Cultural Center.
Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and John Dewey were among the notables who spoke in the building. The sanctuary also served as the sight of high school graduations and other community functions.
No crop just a minor straightening.
Drum Majors perform as they lead the New Orleans Booker T Washington High School Lion Band. They are in the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale parade 02-12-2023.
some info on the school; bookertwashington.kippneworleans.org/
and some info on the parade; www.mkfemmefatale.org/
Photo sun flare adds to this dramatic image. I forgot to pack my lens hood, and I soon got tired of shooting into the sun and moved to the other side of the street.
1951; Nigger Heaven by Carl van Vechten. unknown Artist. Disputable title about the Jazz scene in Harlem. Blurr: "A Strange, arresting, shocking and tremendously serious story....
from the back: It tears away the dark clouds of misunderstanding and prejudice and allows the bright sun of honest inquiry and hope to shine on a speedy advancing race that has given the world such men as Booker T. Washington, George W. Carver, Dr. Ralph Bunche and Jackie Robinson.
• For Black History Month AND
• For February's Alphabet Fun: 2015 Edition AND
• For We're Here! — "Post Offices"
African Americans in the Postal Service and Philately
(This is a great Smithsonian National Postal Museum micro-site with links to several specific topics.)
Rather than focusing on an individual today, i thought i’d do something more in line with the Hereios theme of “Post Offices.” (Thanks, ♔ Georgie R!) A couple of interesting facts about the history of black people and the postal service in USA:
Enslaved black people were among the first mail carriers in the Southern United States. The practice continued until concerns about slave uprisings led to a formal ban on slaves carrying mail in 1802. This and additional restrictions were in place for the next 60 years, until the American Civil War.
Since the first adhesive postage stamp was issued in the United Kingdom in 1840 (the “Penny Black” featuring Queen Victoria), postal services worldwide have had a long tradition of featuring influential historical figures on postage stamps. The United States government followed suit a few years later in 1847 with a five-cent stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin and a ten-cent stamp dedicated to George Washington. It wasn’t until 100 years after that first UK stamp, in 1940, that Booker T. Washington would be the first African American to be honored on a stamp as part of the “Famous Americans” series. Almost another 40 years later, in 1978, Harriet Tubman was the first person to be honored in the new “Black Heritage” series. This also made her the first African American woman to appear on a US postage stamp.
For interesting slideshows and information, check out these links to specific pages on the Smithsonian site:
“The History and Experience of African Americans in America’s Postal Service”
“The Black Experience: African Americans on Stamps”
And this link to the United States Postal Service:
USPS Black Heritage Series list of stamps, 1978-present
And for more information about Booker T. Washington and Harriet Tubman, try these:
Booker T. Washington on Biography[.]com
Harriet Tubman on Biography[.]com
Booker T. Washington on Wikipedia
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From a month of black history-inspired images and information.
P.S. Big thanks to pixabay.com for the FREE stamp outline and postmark overlays.
"When the Train Comes Along”: Booker T. Washington at the Tampa Bay Casino
Cigar forms and boxes, reproduced badge worn at the speech.
Bust of Antonio Maceo
Afro-Cubans relied on the Sociedad la Union Marti-Maceo, a the mutual-aid society, for medical coverage and sick-payments. The services were supported by club dues.
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Booker Washington
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.20374
Call Number: LC-B2- 3673-6
I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
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Photo of the interior of the Negro Building
The 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition was held at the current Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Nearly 800,000 visitors attended the event. The exposition was designed to promote the American South to the world and showcase products and new technologies, as well as to encourage trade with Latin America.
The Cotton States and International Exposition featured exhibits from several states including various innovations in agriculture and technology. President Grover Cleveland presided over the opening of the exposition.
The event is best remembered for the "Atlanta compromise" speech given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, promoting racial cooperation.
Booker T. Washington said of his birth, "I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time." Washington lived in the farm's one-room kitchen cabin with his mother and two half-siblings. After the Civil War, Washington became founder and first principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School. Later as an adviser, author, and orator, his past would influence his philosophies as the most influential African American of his era. This is a reconstruction of the cabin that stood here on the Burroughs Plantation when Booker T. Washington was a boy. (from the NPS website)
“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” ~ Booker T. Washington
odc: strength
Booker T. Washington (bottom row, second from left) organized the National Negro Business League in 1900 "to promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro."
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), founder and principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, organized the National Negro Business League in 1900 to promote "commercial, agricultural, educational, and industrial advancement ... and the commercial and financial development of the Negro." Washington believed that blacks should "leave political and civil rights alone" in order to "make a businessman of the Negro."
Washington was hoping that the League would encourage blacks to start their own businesses, thus proving that they were as capable as whites of economic success. This in turn, Washington reasoned, would eventually lead whites to allow blacks -- or at least certain blacks -- their right to vote and due process of law. The League's membership included a number of successful black businessmen (and women) and professionals and a large number of the black middle class "strivers" who hoped to start their own businesses.
--- Richard Wormser
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The monument at Tuskegee University to Booker T. Washington was dedicated in 1922. The monument became known as "Lifting the Veil." The inscription at its base reads, "He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry." At Tuskegee, Washington put into practice a program of industrial and vocational education. His goal was to ameliorate the economic conditions of blacks. In a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in 1895 Washington expressed the desire to cement the friendship of the races when he stated: "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Washington did not advocate any form of integration, instead proposed a policy of mutual progress and cooperation. In the black community and to some extend the larger community, Washington's stance was view as pragmatic by some and was opposed by others. One of his outstanding critics was follow black educator William E. B Du Bois at Fisk University. To view a statue of William E. B. Du Bois and a brief narrative of his life and his philosophy of black education go to: flic.kr/p/wqsAgm
To view a bust of Washington that is at his birthplace in Virginia and a short narrative on his life go to