Booker T. Washington's Relations with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Some years ago, before he became Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Roy Wilkins stated that Booker T. Washington's contributions were important in the creation of the Association.' Actually, Washington never supported the NAACP, distrusted many of its founders, and resisted most of their friendly overtures. Furthermore, there were some NAACP leaders, such as W. E. B. DuBois, who found it virtually impossible even to accept the slightest hint of Tuskegeean amity. The present paper reviews the relations between leaders of the Association and Mr. Washington, from 1909 when the organization was formed, until 1915 when the Alabama educator died. By 1909, Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, believed that the time was ripe to encourage Negroes like W. E. B. DuBois, since the white journalist was becoming impatient not only with Booker Washington's conservative leadership, but also with his monopoly on leadership. Villard joined others to form the National Negro Committee2

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