booker t. washington

This Day in Labor History: December 30, 1900

By Erik Loomis

On December 30, 2020

On December 30, 1900, advisors from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the college run by Booker T. Washington, arrived in Togo to help the German colonialists institute a southern-style cotton regime in their African colony. This moment demonstrates the globalized nature of the American cotton production...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 596

By Erik Loomis

On December 17, 2019

This is the grave of Booker T. Washington. Born into slavery on a Virginia farm in 1856, Washington spent the first nine years of his life as a slave on.