Booker T. Washington

Who wrote to Booker T. Washington during the ministry scandal?

Dr. Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University

What president invited Booker T. Washington to dine with him?

President Theodore Roosevelt

"...and to show how _____________________ so often uses ___________ and _____________________ to accomplish a purpose"

Providence men institutions

Who hired Booker T. Washington and what for?

Samuel Armstrong, principal of Hampton to teach in a program for Native Americans

Where was Booker T. Washington admitted after falling ill?

St. Luke's Hospital New York City

What African American leaders praised the "Atlanta Compromise" despite their opposition to Booker T. Washington?

T. Thomas Fortune W.E.B. Du Bois

Who did Booker T. Washington send a copy of his address to and responded?

The President of the United States, Hon. Grover Cleveland

What was Booker T. Washington diagnosed with?

arteriosclerosis

"When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of ______________________ and ________________________"

book-learning ownership of property

"It is at the __________________ of life we must begin, and not the ___________________"

bottom top

"No man whose vision is __________________________ can come into contact with what is ______________ and _________________ in the world"

bounded by color highest best

"...I do not believe that [Cleveland] is conscious of possessing any _____________________________. He is too ____________ for that"

color prejudice great

"He felt that he could not _____________________ until he had ____________________"

enjoy his freedom fulfilled his promise

"I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get _______________ in the __________________"

entangled net of slavery

"We have with us today a representative of Negro ______________ and Negro ________________"

enterprise civilization

"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things _______________ to our ___________________"

essential mutual progress

Who is "old Mars' Tom"?

former owner of a large plantation in the South his son became poor and drunk after the war his son was supported in life by the the former slaves of his plantation

"...the one thing that is most worth living for...is the opportunity of making someone else more ____________ and more _____________"

happy useful

What was "one of the most generous acts" that Booker T. Washington ever heard of being performed by one slave relative for another?

his brother John wore his new flax shirt for several days in order to break it in

What was the height of Booker T. Washington's ambition when he was a child?

if he ever got free, to eat ginger-cakes like he saw the ladies on the plantation eating

What is Booker T. Washington's most famous speech and where did he say it?

"Atlanta Compromise" Atlanta Exposition of 1895

What do some contemporary historians of the African American experience call the time period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the beginning of WWI?

"Era of Booker T. Washington"

Which one of his masters was killed during the Civil War?

"Mars' Billy"

What poem does Booker T. Washington quote in the "Atlanta Compromise"

'Song of the Negro Boatman' by John Greenleaf Whittier

What is the compromise referred to in the title of the speech?

African Americans should defer their quest for equal rights in exchange for low-level economic opportunities African Americans would raise themselves through individual efforts and and white Americans would appreciate the efforts being made and judge accordingly

What is Booker T. Washington's full name?

Booker Taliaferro Washington

What siblings did Booker T. Washington have?

John - older brother Amanda - older sister

Where did Booker T. Washington move after the war?

Malden, WV

What media commented on the "Atlanta Compromise"

Mr. Clark Howell, editor for the Atlanta Constitution The Boston Transcript

What is Booker T. Washington's main piece of advice and what does it mean?

"cast down your bucket where you are" don't leave the South; use what you have right where you are and make the most of it whether you are white or black, make peace with your fellow Southerners, white and black, and everyone will prosper

What was Booker T. Washington's autobiography?

'Up From Slavery'

What did Dr. Gilman want Booker T. Washington for?

to be one of the Judges of Award in the Department of Education at Atlanta

Why was there a hole in the center of the cabin floor?

to store sweet potatoes in

What was one of Booker T. Washington's main jobs on the plantation? What sometimes happened during this job?

to take the corn to a mill to be ground the corn would fall off of the horse and, being not strong enough to put it back on the horse, he would sometimes have to wait for hours (crying) for someone to help him

Who asked Booker T. Washington to write a letter for his paper about the condition of black ministers in the South?

Dr. Lyman Abbott pastor of Plymouth Church editor of the Outlook (then the Christian Union)

The Atlanta Exposition was opened by an address from whom?

Governor Bullock

Where was Booker T. Washington born?

Hale's Ford, VA (now WV) Franklin County

What school did he attend? What was its purpose?

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute purpose: to train African Americans as teachers cleanliness, thrift, and hard work

Where was Booker T. Washington awarded an honorary degree from?

Harvard

Who moved that Booker T. Washington be secretary of his division for the Judges of Award?

Thomas Nelson Page

Where did Booker T. Washington travel after he was diagnosed?

Tuskegee

Where was Booker T. Washington the first principal? What was its purpose?

Tuskegee Institute purpose: established by the Alabama state legislature to train African American men and women in agricultural and mechanical trades and teaching

Where was Booker T. Washington's funeral held?

Tuskegee Institute Chapel

Where did he adopt his surname from?

Washington Ferguson his stepfather

Where did Booker T. Washington study after HMAI?

Wayland Seminary

What are the names of some critics who have responded to Booker T. Washington's works?

William L. Andrews Houston A. Baker Jr. James M. Cox

What was in the lower right-hand corner of the cabin?

a "cat-hole"

What did his mother take from the plantation that Booker T. Washington does not consider theft?

a chicken

What was the cabin's purpose besides housing him?

kitchen for the plantation

"The whole _________________ of slavery was so constructed as to cause labor, as a rule, to be looked upon as a _______________________________________, of ____________________"

machinery badge of degradation inferiority

"That this, coupled with our material prosperity, will bring into _________________ a ___________________ and a ___________________"

our beloved South new heaven new earth

"The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into ________"

paradise

"It is important and right at all __________________________ be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the _________________________________

privileges of the law exercises of these privileges

"I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as ______________________"

race prejudice

"The slave system on or place, in a large measure, took the spirit of self-_______________ and self-__________________ our of the white people"

reliance help

What was given to the slaves to hide and protect in the woods towards the end of the Civil War, when Northern invasion was imminent?

silverware

What increased in the slave quarters as the Northern forces drew closer?

singing

What was Booker T. Washington referred as?

the "Moses of his race"

What was the master's house called?

the "big house"

How did slaves stay informed on current events? How did it work?

the "grape-vine telegraph" the slave that would collect the mail would linger to hear conversations at the post office regarding the recent news and then return to the plantation, delivering the news to the slaves before delivering it to the masters

What was "the most trying ordeal" that Booker T. Washington claims he had to endure as a slave boy?

wearing a flax shirt