For Debussy, like Beethoven before him, is a passionate lover of Nature. Music: An Art and a Language Walter Raymond Spalding The following is illustrative of the attitude of the old master towards Debussy.
1878 to 1879 - Booker T. Washington spends the winter studying at the Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C. 1879 - Booker T. Washington returns to Hampton to work for two years as a night teacher and supervisor of the Kiowa and Cheyenne students Hampton had recently accepted. May 1881 - Booker T. Washington is recommended by his supervisor to head a new school for African Americans to be founded in Tuskegee, Alabama.
W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington. The most influential public critique of Booker T. Washingtonâs policy of racial accommodation and gradualism came in 1903 when black leader and intellectual W.E.B. DuBois published an essay in his collection The Souls of Black Folk with the title âOf Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.â DuBois rejected Washingtonâs willingness to avoid rocking the racial boat, calling instead for political power, insistence on civil rights, and the higher education of Negro youth.