Lily-white movement
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The Lily-White Movement was an anti-Black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a response to the political and socioeco
Norris Wright Cuney, the first African-American chairman of the Republican Party of Texas
Apartheid signs trainstation
Booker T. Washington
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Booker Taliaferro Washington 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 elit
Lily-white movement
…Leading opponents: Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had close ties to leading Republicans and was a force in Black politics. Abbott, Richard H. The Republican…
Washington in 1905
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, April 5, 1956, the US Post office issued a commemorative stamp depicting the birthplace of Booker T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia.
The Oaks – Booker T. Washington's house at Tuskegee University
A history class conducted at the Tuskegee Institute in 1902