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mimi-0007 · 2 months
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Bookertee Oklahoma. Ive been in Oklahoma all my life . Never heard of this city. Bookertee is a ghost town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. Bookertee is a historical all black town. It was most likely named after Booker T. Washington, a famous African-American educator. Nothing remains there, and a railway runs through it.
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urbansoulfarmer · 1 year
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Today is George Washington Carver Day!
He was an agronomist, an innovator & an educator whose work with peanuts, soybeans & potatoes revolutionized organic agriculture in the US.
Before sustainability in farming was a trend, Carver popularized crop rotation & used peanuts as a nitrogen-fixing plant to improve soil health. While many farmers at the time sacrificed the soil for larger yields, Carver prioritized soil health while also increasing yields.
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In 1914 Carver and Booker T. Washington started an outreach agricultural school on wheels for Black farmers who didn’t have access to animal vaccinations, new farming techniques, demonstrations and garden tools due to racism and discrimination.
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readyforevolution · 7 months
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whartonists · 2 months
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We all know already how obsessed I am with the set dressers on this show, but I am so bonus obsessed with them putting pictures of Frederick Douglass and who appears to be Toussaint L'Ouverture on Booker T. Washington's wall
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ifelllikeastar · 1 month
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Bukka White was an an American Delta blues guitarist and singer. His daddy gave him a guitar for his ninth birthday. Bukka started his career playing the fiddle at square dances. When he got married at 16 years old, his daddy gave him a new Stella guitar as a wedding present.
Born Booker T. Washington White, Bukka died on February 26, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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zumainthyfuture · 2 months
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You might have heard of Black Wall Street. Meet the founder, O.W. Gurley.
In 1905 Gurley and his wife sold their property in Noble County and moved 80 miles to the oil boom town of Tulsa. Gurley purchased 40 acres of land in North Tulsa and established his first business, a rooming house on a dusty road that would become Greenwood Avenue. He subdivided his plot into residential and commercial lots and eventually opened a grocery store.
As the community grew around him, Gurley prospered. Between 1910 and 1920, the Black population in the area he had purchased grew from 2,000 to nearly 9,000 in a city with a total population of 72,000. The Black community had a large working-class population as well as doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who provided services to them. Soon the Greenwood section was dubbed “Negro Wall Street” by Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington.
Greenwood, now called Black Wall Street, was nearly self-sufficient with Black-owned businesses, many initially financed by Gurley, ranging from brickyards and theaters to a chartered airplane company. Gurley built the Gurley Hotel at 112 N. Greenwood and rented out spaces to smaller businesses. His other properties included a two-story building at 119 N. Greenwood, which housed the Masonic Lodge and a Black employment agency. He was also one of the founders of Vernon AME Church.
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My first blog post is available on my Patreon ❤️
The post as y’all can see it about the Rosenwald schools and their importance to our community. I’ll be uploading some more tonight and of course tomorrow ❤️🙌🏾
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kemetic-dreams · 2 years
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shewhoworshipscarlin · 2 months
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The Negro in Business by Booker T Washington, 1907.
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3rdeyeblaque · 1 year
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On April 5th we venerate Ancestor Booker T. Washington on his 167th birthday🎉
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The epitome of Black Excellence in academia & beyond, Brother Booker T. was a scholar, eduvator, student, principle, businessman, & founder of Tuskegee University in the decades following Emancipation.
Having only ever been known as, Booker, he was born enslaved on the plantation in Virginia along with his mother, Jane, to an unknown White man from a neighboring plantation. After gaining their freedom in West Virginia, he began pursuing formal education. This was a pivotal moment in his life as this was the first time that he was confronted with the realization that his first name was the only name he'd ever known in the absence of surname. This spurred was during the school registeration process. Thus Booker T. Washington forged his name as an ode to his stepfather surname & after discovering the name of his biological father, Taliaferro. Education would become a reoccurring theme in his life of which he attributed to his elevated status & success. He used public higher education as the lens through which he pursued the abolition of Slavery & the advancement of his people. His philosophy was, an investment in practical skills training was the key to the Negro collective's economic & moral progression while accepting the realities of Segregation. For Booker T., education was always the key to our advancement.
"He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry" - presented on the Booker T. Washington monument at Tuskegee University.
We give him libations & 💐 today as we celebrate Brother Booker T. for shattering false perceptions of what it means to be of us while charting a path forward to our collective advancement that would serve as a template & stellar example to many.
Offering suggestions: dollars/coins, libations of water (especially on the grounds of Tuskegee University), & books
*Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.
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the-mercy-workers · 6 months
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him
Booker T. Washington
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mimi-0007 · 1 year
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pulseincorp · 1 year
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#mentalhealth #monday
#motovationalquotes #motovationalmonday #newweek
#bpokertwashington
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readyforevolution · 4 months
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wutbju · 6 months
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The July 1988 Fundamentalist Journal (Falwell’s publication) used the old “make a living” v. “how to live” mantra.
No, they didn’t get it from Bob Sr. Everybody got it from Booker T. Washington.
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theglue17 · 4 months
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"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
-Booker T. Washington
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