Booker T. Washington
Articles discussing Booker T. Washington from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Booker T. Washington (17 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that substantially discuss Booker T. Washington.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Jan) | Envy | Critiques labeling Black leaders’ disagreements as ‘envy,’ arguing race leadership debates deserve principled scrutiny. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Starvation and Prejudice | Argues Washington’s minimization of Southern race wrongs lets prejudice, lynching and disfranchisement threaten democracy. |
| 1913 (Mar) | The Fruit of the Tree | Condemns rhetoric of Black subservience as causing disenfranchisement, segregation and lynching, and calls for resistance. |
| 1914 (Mar) | A Crusade | Urges a new abolitionist crusade for race justice and democracy, calling for mass organization and support for the NAACP. |
| 1914 (Mar) | Lynching | Exposes how suppressed reporting masks lynching’s rise, documenting race-based violence and challenging ineffective reforms. |
| 1915 (Jun) | Booker T. Washington | Praises Booker T. Washington’s gains in Black education but faults him for aiding disfranchisement and color caste |
| 1916 (Feb) | An Open Letter to Robert Russa Moton | Urges Tuskegee leader Moton to defend Black voting rights, equal education, and oppose Jim Crow segregation. |
| 1916 (May) | Social Equality | Condemns white Southern efforts to re-enslave and argues education and interracial contact are vital for race equality. |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Tuskegee Resolutions | Denounces Tuskegee resolutions for urging Black labor to remain South while ignoring lynching and legal injustice. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Persecution | Condemns the persecution of educator Roscoe C. Bruce, urging Black Washington to end infighting that harms education. |
| 1921 (Oct) | Thomas Jesse Jones | (The Crisis, 1921) criticizes T. J. Jones for imposing white control over Black education, missions and leadership, urging Black representation. |
| 1922 (May) | Social Equality | 1922 argues for social equality for Black Americans, condemning racial contempt and urging refusal to return hatred. |
| 1927 (Oct) | Mencken | Rebuts Mencken, arguing racial bias and white readership limit Black artists’ themes while the Renaissance endures. |
| 1928 (Nov) | The Dunbar National Bank | Argues the Dunbar National Bank could democratize capital and empower Black leaders to advance racial democracy via credit. |
| 1932 (Nov) | If I Had a Million Dollars: A Review of the Phelps Stokes Fund | Faults the Phelps Stokes Fund for favoring surveys and white education over Black scholarships and leadership |
| 1933 (Oct) | Youth and Age at Amenia | Reports the Amenia Conference urging youth–age dialogue to make race, labor, education central to democratic economic reform |
| 1934 (May) | William Monroe Trotter | Eulogizes Monroe Trotter, lauds his fight against racial segregation, and warns that organized civil-rights unity can prevail. |
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