"Hace ya hace mucho tiempo
que decidí que no iba a permitir que ningún hombre, sin importar cual fuera su
color, estrechara o degradara mi alma haciéndome odiarlo."
"It
is now long ago that I resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his
colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
Booker T. Washington
Booker
Taliaferro Washington (5 de abril de 1856, 1858 ó 1859 - 14 de noviembre de
1915) Fue un educador, orador, cohesor y líder de la comunidad negra
estadounidense. Fue liberado de la esclavitud en su infancia, y tras desempeñar
varios trabajos de poca relevancia en Virginia Occidental se procuró una
educación en el Instituto Hampton (Hampton Institute) y en el Seminario Wayland
(Wayland Seminary). Con la recomendación en 1881 del fundador del Instituto
Hampton, Samuel C. "Sam" Armstrong, fue designado como el primer
líder del reciente Instituto Tuskegee (Tuskegee Institute) de Alabama, que, por
entonces, era una universidad de formación del profesorado para negros.
Booker Taliaferro
Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African-American
educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents. He was the
dominant leader in the African-American community in the United States from
1890 to 1915. Representative of the last generation of black American leaders
born in slavery, he spoke on behalf of the large majority of blacks who lived
in the South but had lost their ability to vote through disfranchisement by
southern legislatures. Historians note that Washington, "advised,
networked, cut deals, made threats, pressured, punished enemies, rewarded
friends, greased palms, manipulated the media, signed autographs, read minds
with the skill of a master psychologist, strategized, raised money, always knew
where the camera was pointing, traveled with an entourage, waved the flag with
patriotic speeches, and claimed to have no interest in partisan politics. In other words, he was an artful politician."
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