Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 – 1915) va ser un polític afroamericà estatunidenc.
Washington va ser de la darrera generació de líders afroamericans nascuts esclaus. Va estar en contra de les lleis discriminatòries contra els negres sorgides després de l'abolició de l'esclavisme.
Washington va ser partidari de l'African-American businesses i un dels fundadors de la National Negro Business League. La seva base va ser el Tuskegee Institute, un college d'Alabama. Com els linxaments al Sud dels Estats Units van arribar al seu màxim el 1895, Washington va fer el discurs conegut com a "Atlanta compromise", la qual cosa li va donar fama nacional. Va ser partidari de canviar la situació dels afroamericans via l'educació.[1][2]
Bauerlein, Mark. Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois: The origins of a bitter intellectual battle. 46, Winter 2004.
Boston, Michael B. The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation. University Press of Florida, 2010.; 243 pp. Studies the content and influence of his philosophy of entrepreneurship
Hamilton, Kenneth M. Booker T. Washington in American Memory (U of Illinois Press, 2017), 250 pp.
Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: volume 1: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856–1901, 1972., the major scholarly biography
Meier, August «Toward a Reinterpretation of Booker T. Washington». The Journal of Southern History, 23, 5-1957, p. 220–27. DOI: 10.2307/2955315.. Documents Booker T. Washington's secret financing and directing of litigation against segregation and disfranchisement.
Norrell, Robert J. Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington. Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03211-8., favorable scholarly biography.
Smith, David L. Myth America: A Historical Anthology. II. Brandywine Press, 1997. ISBN 1-881089-97-5. «Commanding Performance: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Address».
Smock, Raymond. Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow. Ivan R Dee, 2009..
Pole, JR «Review: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others; The Children of Pride». The Historical Journal, 17, 4, 1974..
Zimmerman, Andrew. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton University Press, 2012..
Historiografia
Bieze, Michael Scott, and Marybeth Gasman, eds. Booker T. Washington Rediscovered (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 265 pp. scholarly essays
Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up from Slavery 100 Years Later, 2003..
Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo. "Exploring a Century of Historical Scholarship on Booker T. Washington," Journal of African American History 92#2 (2007), pp. 239–264 in JSTOR; also pp 127-57 partly online
Friedman, Lawrence J «Life 'In the Lion's Mouth': Another Look at Booker T. Washington». Journal of Negro History, 59, 10-1974, p. 337–351. DOI: 10.2307/2717315..
Harlan, Louis R «Booker T. Washington in Biographical Perspective». American Historical Review, 75, 10-1970, p. 1581–99. DOI: 10.2307/1850756.
Norrell, Robert J. "Booker T. Washington: Understanding the Wizard of Tuskegee," Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 42 (2003–4), pp. 96–109 in JSTOR
Strickland, Arvarh E «Booker T. Washington: The Myth and the Man». Reviews in American History, 1, 12-1973, p. 559–564. DOI: 10.2307/2701723..
Zeringue, Joshua Thomas. "Booker T. Washington and the Historians: How Changing Views on Race Relations, Economics, and Education Shaped Washington Historiography, 1915-2010" (MA Thesis, LSU, 2015) onlineArxivat 2016-04-12 a Wayback Machine..
Washington, Booker T; Harlan, Louis R; Blassingame, John W. «(search link)». A: The Booker T Washington Papers. University of Illinois Press, 1972. ISBN 0-252-00242-3 [Consulta: 4 febrer 2009].; fourteen-volume set of all letters to and from Booker T. Washington.
[2006-08-18] BTW. 14. History cooperative. «cumulative index».