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Depicts:
Booker T. Washington, American, 1856 - 1915  Search this
Printer:
Bureau of Engraving and Printing  Search this
Medium:
paper; ink (dark brown); adhesive / engraving
Type:
Postage Stamps
Place:
United States of America
Date:
April 7, 1940
Description:
Booker T. Washington (c.1856 -1915) saw that the solution of American race relations in the late nineteenth century lay in education and work. Through his role as principal of a new training school for blacks in Tuskegee Alabama he built a foundation for education and training of blacks in the south. The Tuskegee Institute curriculum focused on technical and practical skills that would provide its students with job skills and a means to make a living. Only through hard work and economic success, Washington believed, could blacks and whites come to find mutual respect for each other. He founded the National Negro Business League in 1900 to shepherd these goals. His first autobiography "Up from Slavery," (1901) offered his life as an example of success and he constantly relayed an optimistic view of the future for all Americans to his students and the national community.
Topic:
Education & Teaching  Search this
Humanitarian Causes  Search this
Black Heritage  Search this
World War II (1939-1945)  Search this
U.S. Stamps  Search this
Object number:
1980.2493.2855
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National Postal Museum Collection
Data Source:
National Postal Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8391a76a6-65a9-4d34-b447-786fb80a37fd
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:npm_1980.2493.2855