Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
David Howard-Pitney writes about American social movements and their key figures. His books cover topics like the Civil Rights Struggle, the American Women's Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance. He also examines historical writings such as Southern Horrors and Up from Slavery.
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is a historian whose work examines American history, particularly the Civil Rights era and the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His books include "Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s" and "Southern Horrors and Other Writings."