Macon County AlArchives Obituaries.....Booker T. Washington November 14 1915
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The Butler Herald, November 18, 1915
The Butler Herald

Tuesday, November 18, 1915

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Negro Educator Dies at Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington Expires at His Home
Tuskegee, Ala., Nov. 14 

Booker T. Washington, negro educator, lecturer, author and recognized leader of 
his race in America died at his home here early today, four hours after his 
arrival from New York.

Dr. Washington had not been in good health for several months and suffered a 
nervous breakdown in New York last week.  He had gone there to attend the 
annual meeting of the American Missionary Association and the National 
Conference of Congressional churches.

Wanted to Die at Home

He did not respond to treatment at a hospital in New York and decided to come 
back home.  He had often said that his work had been among southern negroes, 
and that he was a southern negro, and that is was his wish to live, die and be 
buried in the south.  He left New York Friday afternoon.  The trip seemed to 
sap his remaining energy, and he died quietly soon after being removed to his 
home.

By his writings, lectures and activities in building up Tuskegee Institute Dr. 
Washington for the past twenty-five years had commanded the attention and 
confidence of leading men in many walks of life south and north.  It has been 
said that his ideas of bettering the negro race more nearly fit sentiment 
expressed in different parts of the country than those of any other man 
interested in such work.

Organized Tuskegee

He organized Tuskegee Institute in 1881, having been selected for the work by 
state authorities.  This was six years after he had graduated from Hampton 
Institute in Virginia.  After graduation he taught at Hampton for some time.  
His natural executive and constructive ability resulted in the Tuskegee 
institution becoming one of the leading negro schools in the country.

Much of his work was given over to efforts to impress upon Negroes their moral 
responsibilities.  In many of his lectures he pointed out in no uncertain terms 
weaknesses common to the race along with his admonitions to correct certain 
evils.

Won Sympathy of South

Washington won the sympathy and support of leading southerners by a speech in 
behalf of his race at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta in 1895.  Of 
undoubted ability and breadth of vision, his sane leadership enabled him to 
accomplish more for and among the Negroes of the United States than any negro 
of his time.

Addtional comments:

See a biography of Booker T. Washington at:
http://www.nps.gov/bowa/btwbio.html


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