“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
–Booker T. Washington
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2013
This is another itty bitty painting. It’s a crop of just a wee corner of a really big building. I had fun with all the detail on this one. It is a very ornate building! I think I am done painting Kansas City ….for now. I think I have 30 paintings to take to the show. I think that is plenty.
Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, Educator. Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on southern race relations and was the dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. Born a slave on a small farm in the Virginia backcountry, he moved with his family after emancipation to work in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia. After a secondary education at Hampton Institute, he taught an upgraded school and experimented briefly with the study of law and the ministry, but a teaching position at Hampton decided his future career. In 1881 he founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute on the Hampton model in the Black Belt of Alabama. More…
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