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Place of Birth
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Franklin County, Virginia
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Known for
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Advocating improvements in the black community through education and economic self-reliance
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Founding the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and the National Negro Business League
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Career
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1872-1875 Attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) in Virginia
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Late 1870s Taught for two years in Malden, West Virginia
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1879 Taught at the Hampton Institute
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1881 Was appointed to establish the Tuskegee Normal School (now Tuskegee University)
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1881-1915 Headed the Tuskegee Normal School (which became the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1937)
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September 18, 1895 Delivered his controversial compromise speech, in which he urged blacks to accept their inferior social position and to advance themselves through education and economic improvement
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1899 Published The Future of the American Negro |
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1900 Founded the National Negro Business League
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1901 Published the autobiography Up from Slavery |
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Quote
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'In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.' September 18, 1895, in his compromise speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Did You Know
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Writer and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois was an outspoken critic of Washington's policy of compromise.
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Washington acted as advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
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Washington's power and influence earned him the nickname Wizard of Tuskegee.
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President Theodore Roosevelt entertained Washington at a 1901 White House dinner.
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