Statue of Booker T. Washington
Statue of Booker T. Washington at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama; The Alabama Department of Archives and History was established by an act of the legislature on February 27, 1901. According to the enabling legislation, one of the purposes of the department was "... The collection of materials bearing upon the history of the state and of the territory therein from the earliest times." Statue of Booker T. Washington by Ed Dwight in 1991; Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. He was representative of the last generation of black leaders born in slavery and spoke for those blacks who had remained in modus Vivendi with racist white Southerners in the exploitative racist atmosphere of the post – reconstruction South. Washington was able throughout the final 25 years of his life to maintain his standing as the major black leader because of the sponsorship by powerful whites, substantial support within the black community, his ability to raise educational funds from both groups and his accommodation to the social realities of the age of segregation
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