who was the founder of tuskegee institute?
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Booker T. Washington was the first President/principal of Tuskegee Institute now Tuskegee University but it was founded by Lewis Adams of Tuskegee. Adams became a black educator after the civil war and was approched by a canadate for state senate (Alabama) asking what can he do to get the black vote in Macon County(Tuskegee). Adams asked for a school to be set-up in Tuskegee for blacks. The Canidate was elected and 2,000 dollars was appropreated for Tuskegee Normal And Industrial Institute. Then Mr. Adams and a host of other board members from Tuskegee contacted Hampton Institute to send them a leader for the newly developed school and they sent Booker T. Washington.
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He was married three times:\n\nFannie N. Smith from Malden, W. Va., in 1882.  She died in 1884.\n\nOlivia A. Davidson in 1885.  He met her at Tuskegee.  She died in 1889.\n\nMargaret James Murray in 1893.
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Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Jah (the Rastafari name for God, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalms 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible), and part of the Holy Trinity. The name Rastafari comes from Ras Täfäri, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. The movement emerged in Jamaica among working-class and peasant black people in the early 1930s, arising from an interpretation of Biblical prophecy, black social and political aspirations, and the teachings of their prophet, Jamaican black publicist and organiser Marcus Garvey, whose political and cultural vision helped inspire a new world view. The movement is sometimes called "Rastafarianism"; however, this is considered improper and offensive by Rastas.
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LMAO,oh and another is," Someday I will be the first black president".Remember him saying that one?
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There is no book.  It's a purported speech from a slave owner named Willie Lynch, on how to ensure your slaves stay enslaved.  It is of dubious authenticity.  The source I mention deconstructs this speech.
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This is the great debate. Booker T. Washington believed that the Negro way to respect and acceptance was through industry and hard work. He backed his belief up by founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute to train black men and women who wanted to have a skill that could be offered to the white community in a non-threatening manner. \n\nMr. Washington gave a speech to the Atlanta Exposition in  1895. This speech which gained him national accalaim because it outlined his ideas about how black Americans should not seek civil and political equality. His speech was appalauded by white Southerns, and distinguished him as one of the greatest  black men of his generation. \n\nW.E.B. Dubois was of the opinion that his speech was a spit in the face to black men and women of ability and talent Mr.Washington's speech in his opinion left white southerners believing they were justified in their anti-black policies. \n\nI urge you to read Dubois "The Soul of Black Folks"\nAs well as Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery"\n\nW.E.B. Dubois: Born 23 February 1868, Name: William Edward Burghardt DuBois. Born in Great Barrington Massachusetts. \n\nBooker T.Washington: \nBorn: As Mr Washington states in his autobiography he is unt certain of the date. puting it at around 1858 or 1859. He was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County Virginia. \n\nI would say, putting all political beliefs aside. The major differences between these two men is one was born free, and the other was born in bondage. I cannot begin to describe or understand the thinking of a man who spent the early years of his life enslaved. \n\n\nDubois was a free man with access to his own person. To education at a young age. He was a very intelligent man. He had all of the advantages that Booket T. Washington did not. Ask yourself was it fair for men such as Dubois to spend their lives as second class citizens because of there color. Not their ability.
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ANNE DIBBLE JORDAN (2004)\n\n\nA cultural and educational leader recognized across the nation and in the nation's Capitol, Ann Dibble Jordan became the first African American to chair a Presidential Inaugural in 1996. Formerly a social worker, a professor at the University of Chicago, and the director of the Social Services Department at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, Mrs. Jordan now works tirelessly to better the position of women and minorities across the country. She is a leader who has made civic society stronger and richer. \n\nAnn Jordan serves on the Board of Johnson & Johnson, Automatic Data Processing, Citigroup, and Catalyst and is a trustees at The Brookings Institute, the University of Chicago, WETA (Washington's PBS affiliate), and The Phillips Collection. Mrs. Jordan also chairs the Board of Directors at the National Symphony Orchestra and works with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Washington Area Women's Foundation. She and husband Vernon have four adult children.
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James Oglethorpe founded Georgia for debtors and prisoners.\n\nAlso -- its know, not "noe"\n\n:)
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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Harriet Tubman (born 1820 or 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland, died March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York), also known as Black Moses, Grandma Moses, or Moses of Her People, was an African-American freedom fighter. An escaped slave, she worked as a lumberjack, laundress, nurse, and cook. As an abolitionist, she acted as intelligence gatherer, refugee organizer, raid leader, nurse, and fundraiser, all as part of the struggle for liberation from slavery and racism.\n\nFearing sale into the Deep South, Tubman took her emancipation into her own hands. Sometime in the fall of 1849 she escaped northward, leaving behind her free husband who did not want to follow. On her way she was assisted by sympathetic Quakers and other members of the Abolitionist movement, both black and white, who were instrumental in maintaining the Underground Railroad. She was called "Moses" by those she helped escape on the Underground Railroad. She made many trips to Maryland to help other slaves escape. According to her own estimates and those of her close associates, Tubman personally guided around 70 slaves to freedom in about 13 expeditions. She was never captured and, in her own words, "never lost a passenger."
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he was from alabama.\n\ngoogle him
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Well, if you want a civil rights leader there's Martin Luther King Jr. But, if you're wanting a really interesting project, you can do your report on German Dictator, Adolf Hitler. That's just two of the thousands of possibilities.
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( This Should Help you)\n\n\nRosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on 4th February, 1913. When Rosa was a child her mother, Leona McCauley, separated from her husband and moved to Montgomery. McCauley was a school teacher and encouraged her daughter to be active in the struggle for civil rights. \n\nIn 1932 Rosa married a barber, Raymond Parks. Both were members of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and Rosa served as the secretary of the Montgomery chapter. Durng this period she became close friends with Philip Randolph, Edgar Nixon and Ella Baker. These activists worked within a range of different organizations. This included the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Established in 1942, by a group of students in Chicago, members were mainly pacifists who had been deeply influenced by Henry David Thoreau and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India. The students became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. \n\nIn early 1947, CORE announced plans to send eight white and eight black men into the Deep South to test the Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. organized by George Houser and Bayard Rustin, the Journey of Reconciliation was to be a two week pilgrimage through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. \n\nThe Journey of Reconciliation began on 9th April, 1947. The team included George Houser, Bayard Rustin, James Peck, Igal Roodenko, Nathan Wright, Conrad Lynn, Wallace Nelson, Andrew Johnson, Eugene Stanley, Dennis Banks, William Worthy, Louis Adams, Joseph Felmet, Worth Randle and Homer Jack. \n\nMembers of the Journey of Reconciliation team were arrested several times. In North Carolina, two of the African Americans, Bayard Rustin and Andrew Johnson, were found guilty of violating the state's Jim Crow bus statute and were sentenced to thirty days on a chain gang. However, Judge Henry Whitfield made it clear he found that behaviour of the white men even more objectionable. He told Igal Roodenko and Joseph Felmet: "It's about time you Jews from New York learned that you can't come down her bringing your niggers with you to upset the customs of the South. Just to teach you a lesson, I gave your black boys thirty days, and I give you ninety." \n\nIn Montgomery, like most towns in the Deep South, buses were segregated. Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists considered using these tactics in Montgomery. However, under pressure from the NAACP, this never took place. Thurgood Marshall, head of the NAACP's legal department, was strongly against these tactics and warned that a "disobedience movement on the part of Negroes and their white allies, if employed in the South, would result in wholesale slaughter with no good achieved." \n\nIn early 1955, Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old black girl was dragged off a bus in Montgomery and arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person. The NAACP now agreed to take up the Colvin incident as a test case. It believed that this would result in a similar outcome to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregation in education. However, the NAACP decided to drop the idea when they discovered that Colvin was pregnant. They knew that the authorities in Montgomery would use this against them in the propaganda war that would inevitably take place during this legal battle. \n\nOn 1st December, 1955, Rosa Parks, left Montgomery Fair, the department store where she worked, and got on the same bus as she did every night. As always she sat in the "black section" at the back of the bus. However, when the bus became full, the driver instructed Rosa to give up her seat to a white person. This had happened to Rosa several times before. In fact, the same bus driver had forced her off the bus in 1943 for c
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights leader\nMaya Angelou - Author\nBooker T. Washington - Politician\nGeorge Washington Carver - Botanist\nBarak Obama - Senator\nClarence Thomas - Supreme Court Justice\nCondoleeza Rice - Secretary of State\nTom Bradley - Mayor of Los Angeles\nBill Cosby - Actor, comedian\nW.E.B. DuBois - Historian, poet, activist, first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard.
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I assume you mean Frederick Douglass?\n\nFrederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. \n\nA brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845. Two years later he bagan publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star.\n\nDouglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.
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President of what exactly? What country, organization, institute, etc.?!!
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They were treated less than human. They were subjected to all kinds of horrid research. Just look at what happened to the Tuskegee men that were allowed to die of syphillis for a medical study. They were subjected to segregation. I suggest that you do more research by perhaps going to a black church in your area and speaking to some of the elders. Many of them could tell you about what they experienced during childhood. Also, look up what happened in Tuskegee...it was horrendous.