Robert Russa Moton was the second principal of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute and the only African American invited to speak at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922. But he was almost cut from the program because organizers...
Booker T. Washington
University of Virginia Press’s “Rotunda” ads the papers of Booker T. Washington to its digital collection
Here is Emily Grandstaff at UVA Today: This digital edition is based on the landmark 14-volume print series of Washington’s papers, originally published by the University of Illinois Press between 1970 to 1989. It is considered one of the great...
Thoughts on Trump’s Proposed “National Garden of American Heroes”
At his July 3, 2020 speech at Mount Rushmore, Donald Trump said: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alEE-5Pk5DQ&w=560&h=315] More here. And here is the text of the executive order: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws...