# Booker T. Washington Topic: [[Topics/Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History/Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History|Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History]] · People in this topic are listed on the hub. - **Who:** (1856–1915) born enslaved in Virginia; founding head of Tuskegee Institute (1881); the 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech favored vocational training and economic self-help over immediate political agitation, which W. E. B. Du Bois attacked ◻. ## Role in this topic - Named by @AlBuffalo2nite ([[Users/@AlBuffalo2nite/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - AlBuffalo2nite on Teaching Black Children All of History (2026-10-23)|analysis]]). His self-help line fits the post's "what they can accomplish" theme.