The Story And The Values Of Booker T. Washington

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The Booker T. Washington Society
Website: http://btwsociety.org/about/

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We're sharing this video in light of the relationship between Colonel Allen Allensworth and Booker T. Washington. Allensworth was an admirer of the Black American educator Booker T. Washington, who was the founding president and longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Allensworth dreamed that his new community could be self-sufficient and become known as the "Tuskegee of the West".

So rather than spending his golden years in the California sunshine, Allensworth continued to promote the African-American race and promulgate the teachings of another individual who had come up from slavery, Booker T. Washington. The colonel, an ardent supporter of the Tuskegean, believed that if the race was to rise, blacks had to be willing to do for themselves, to rely on black self-help efforts, rather than on white philanthropy.

The video above is courtsey of the Booker T. Washington Society. This brief video shares both the story and the values of Booker T. Washington.