Learn how a slave became one of the leading influential African American intellectuals of the late 19th century. African American educator, author, speaker, and

Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the

The Atlanta Compromise was an address by African-American leader Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895. Given to a predominantly White audience at the Cott

Traces the life and achievements of the former slave who became the leading African-American educator of his time and the founder of Tuskegee University.