Record ID:
35519782 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79063604
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18560405
  • Franklin County (Va.)
Death:
  • 19151114
  • Tuskegee (Ala.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Fields of activity:
  • Education, Higher Writing Public speaking Politics
Occupations:
  • Educators Authors Politicians Lecturers Slaves Civil rights workers
Used for:
  • Vāśiṅgaṭana, Vukara Ṭī, 1856-1915
  • Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1856-1915
  • Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1859?-1915
Notes:
  • Up from slavery, 2000? t.p. (Booker T. Washington)
  • LC database, Sept. 27, 2011 (hdg.: Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1859?-1915)
  • LC man. auth. cd. (Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915; orig. hdg. scratched out: Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1859?-1915; some citations give various birthdates centering around 1856 or 1859)
  • Wikipedia WWW, Sept. 27, 2011 (Booker Taliaferro Washington, born Apr. 5, 1856 in Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, died Nov. 14, 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama; was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915)
  • Biography, via WWW, Jan. 24, 2013 (born to a slave in Franklin County, Virginia; founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as Tuskegee University); attended Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in 1872; first African American to be invited to dine at the White House, with Pres. Theodore Roosevelt)
  • African American National Biography, accessed September 20, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Washington, Booker T; Booker Taliaferro Washington; slave, civil rights activist, educator; born 05 April 1856 in Near Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, United States; graduated, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia (1875); spent few months at Wayland Seminary, Baptist institution, Washington, D.C. (1878-1879); his life's work was to establish new Negro normal school in Tuskegee, Alabama (1881); supported financially New York Age newspaper (1880s); supported the Afro-American League (1887); played a major role in the successful effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a harsh Alabama peonage law (1908-1911); died 14 November 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States)
Local system number:
  • abv04592389
  • 000000522768
  • (AuPaJTL)92034
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC UPB DLC DHU-MS
Authentication code:
  • kin