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It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.
Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.
* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
Locals described him in admiration as the " Booker T. Washington of Charlotte ".
In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute, invited Carver to head its Agriculture Department.
Knowing the potential ramifications on his presidential aspirations if such knowledge became public, Hoover struck a deal with Robert Russa Moton, the prominent African-American successor to Booker T. Washington as president of the Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.
Two weeks after Booker T. Washington came to visit Occidental, on March 27, 1914 — the school ’ s 25th anniversary — Swan, Fowler, and Johnson halls were dedicated at its new Eagle Rock campus.
The conditions in Sicilian sulfur mines were horrific, prompting Booker T. Washington to write " I am not prepared just now to say to what extent I believe in a physical hell in the next world, but a sulphur mine in Sicily is about the nearest thing to hell that I expect to see in this life .".
* 1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the " Atlanta Compromise " address.
* October 16 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt invites African American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House.
** Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.
* November 15 – Booker T. Washington, American educator ( b. 1856 )
* April 7 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
* Colored High becomes the first African American high school in Houston, TX ; its name is later changed to Booker T. Washington High School.
* April 5 – Booker T. Washington, American educator ( d. 1915 )
Booker Taliaferro Washington ( April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915 ) was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents.
She and the freedman Washington Ferguson were formally married in West Virginia, and Booker took the surname Washington at school after his stepfather.
Sculpture of Booker T. Washington at the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C.
Booker T. Washington with his third wife Margaret and two sons.
They had two sons, Booker T. Washington Jr. and Ernest Davidson Washington, before she died in 1889.
Booker T. Washington did not understand that his program was perceived as subversive of a natural order in which black people were to remain forever subordinate or unfree.

Washington and T
Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.
* John T. Ford ( 1829 – 1894 ), American theatre owner and manager ; 1865 assassination of President Lincoln occurred in one of his venues, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C.
When family friend John T. Ford opened 1, 500-seat Ford's Theatre on November 9 in Washington, D. C., Booth was one of the first leading men to appear there, playing in Charles Selby's The Marble Heart.
* John T. Walker ( 1925 – 1989 ), American Episcopal bishop of Washington
By 1926 the market for commercial radio had expanded, and RCA purchased the WEAF and WCAP radio stations and networks from AT & T, merged them with its WJZ ( the predecessor of WABC ) New York to WRC ( presently WTEM ) Washington chain, and formed the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ).
In June 1835, Lucas dispatched a delegation consisting of U. S. Attorney Noah Haynes Swayne, former Congressman William Allen, and David T. Disney to Washington D. C. to confer with President Andrew Jackson.
* Adrienne T. Washington ( columnist )
AT & T made its first postwar addition in February 1946, with the completion of a cable between New York City and Washington, D. C., although a blurry demonstration broadcast showed that it would not be in regular use for several months.

Washington and .
Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.
His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington castigated his critic, General Conway, as being capable of `` all the meanness of intrigue to gratify the absurd resentment of disappointed vanity ''.
Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.
`` We have now a national character to establish '', Washington wrote in 1783.
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
In the 1930's, cures for the depression literally flooded Washington.
and George Washington Harris, whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in literature.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
from the home of his friend, Henrik Kauffmann, in Washington, D.C., Paul Bang-Jensen sent a telegram dated December 9, 1957, to Ernest Gross.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.
There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.
So far as `` sacredness '' inheres in any aspect of creation it seems to me to be found in human personality, whether in Lambarene, Africa, or in Washington, D.C..
From New Jersey, Morgan hastened to the headquarters of Washington at Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, arriving there on November 18th.
In order to prevent this, Washington hastened to dispatch several units to reinforce the fort, including a force under the Marquis De Lafayette containing some 160 of Morgan's riflemen, all who were fit for duty at this time, the rest having no shoes.
Nathanael Greene told Washington that `` Lafayette was charmed with the spirited behavior of the militia and riflemen ''.
The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
Morgan hotly denied this and informed the Board of War that the men in camp linked the name of Peters with the plot against Washington.
In order to see that this hindering situation remained effective, Washington detached several bodies of his troops to the periphery of the Philadelphia area.

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