Memoir of a visit by Booker T. Washington to the office of Ferdinand Martin Joplin at Crowley, La. [manuscript], ca. 1915.

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Memoir of a visit by Booker T. Washington to the office of Ferdinand Martin Joplin at Crowley, La. [manuscript], ca. 1915.

Larue briefly describes a visit between his father and Booker T. Washington, who had been boyhood playmates before the Civil War.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Joplin, John Larue.

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Joplin, Ferdinand Martin, 1845-1921.

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