Dear Dr. Don, Please explain the difference between a 30-year fixed and a 30-year FHA loan. My understanding is that the conventional fixed-rate loan requires 20 percent down and the FHA loan does not.
Transcript of Booker T. Washington and The Progressive Era of 1890-1912. Booker T. Washington and The Progressive Era of 1890-1912. Washington's contributions to the Progressive Era. Booker T. Washington acted as a black leader in the Progressive Era, fighting against racism for blacks. He was a dominant leader, and he also had the advantage of getting the presidents on his side. Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in Hale's Ford, Virginia.
Across the landscape of the most anguished era of American race relations (1895-1915) strode the self-assured and influential Booker T. Washington. The foremost black educator, power broker, and institution builder of his time, Washington in 1881 founded Tuskegee Institute, a black school in Alabama devoted to industrial and moral education and to the training of public school teachers.