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 overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T Washington
Success Is To Be Measured
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author and orator. He also advised multiple presidents of the United States.
Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite.
Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by the discrimination of Jim Crow laws enacted during post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dallas Independent School District is one of many school systems with a campus named in his honor.