Title: Nathan B. Young
Content: Afterwards, he became the President of Lincoln University. Nathan B. Young Nathan Benjamin Young (September 15, 1862—July 19, 1933) was an African-American educator who helped move forward black education in the early 20th century. Born a slave in Alabama, Young later became an educator after Booker T. Washington, who witnessed Young’s skills in debating, invited him to teach at the Tuskegee Institute. Following his career as a teacher, Young later became a president of two major universities, Florida A&M University and Lincoln University. He and Henry Lee De Forest, the president of Talladega College, started a campaign to help improve

Title: Sociology of race and ethnic relations
Content: that Black Americans should embrace higher education and use their new access to schooling to achieve a higher position within society. He referred to this idea as the Talented Tenth. With gaining popularity, he also preached the belief that for blacks to be free in some places, they must be free everywhere. After traveling to Africa and Russia, he recanted his original philosophy of integration and acknowledged it as a long term vision. Booker T. Washington was considered one of the most influential black educators of the 19th and 20th centuries. Born in 1856 as a slave in Virginia, Washington

Title: Fayette Avery McKenzie
Content: of managers of Haverford College for over forty years. For much of his life, L. Hollingsworth Wood worked actively in the areas of peace, civil rights, black and Quaker education. Thomas Jesse Jones (1873–1950) was the most prominent sociologist in the nation specializing in Black American affairs. As specialist with the Bureau of Education, Jones conducted an acclaimed study and report titled, "Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United States", and published in 1917. The study was the first project funded by the Phelps Stokes Fund, and in 1911 Jones became

Title: Fredrick McGhee
Content: Fredrick McGhee Fredrick L. McGhee (October 28, 1861 – September 9, 1912) was a black civil rights activist and one of America’s first African American lawyers. McGhee, born as a slave but who later was able to achieve a substantial career as an attorney and become one of the civil rights pioneers, was a contemporary of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. McGhee was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Abraham McGhee and Sarah Walker, who were slaves. His father, from Blount County, Tennessee, was a literate black slave who learned how to read and write without being

Title: Calhoun Colored School
Content: but rural white students did not have access to such education either. Highly educated African Americans such as W. E. B. Du Bois thought the Tuskegee model was too limited and did not support it. Born in Massachusetts and educated in the North, including a doctorate at Harvard University, he argued for ensuring that the most talented students could get a full academic education, to advance the race. In October 1892 the co-principals Thorn and Dillingham met with 300 blacks from the area who wanted to learn more about their plans to start a school. Many of the adults who

Question: Who was the black educationist who was born a slave but became a leader in the search for civil rights in the early 1900s?
Answer: Booker T. Washington