W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T #1734

Caption from poster__      " I have learned that success is to be measured not so much   by the position that one has reached   in life as by the obstacles   which he has had to overcome   while trying to succeed."      Booker T. Washington     Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American political leader, educator and author. He was one of the dominant figures in African American history in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Washington was born into slavery to a slave owner [father], and a slave [mother] in Franklin County, Virginia. He eventually learned to read and write while working at manual labor jobs. At the age of sixteen, he went to Hampton, Virginia to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, now Hampton University, to train as a teacher. In 1881, he was named as the first leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was granted an honorary Masters of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1896 and an honorary Doctorat