By the 1890s Booker T. Washington, born in Virginia of a slave mother and a white father, had become the foremost black educator in the nation. He argued that blacks should not focus on fighting racial segregation. Instead, they should first establish an economic base for their advancement before striving for social equality and political rights. In sum, Washington wanted first to build a prosperous black community; civil rights and social integration could wait. By the turn of the century, Booker T. Washington had become the most influential African American leader in the nation.
Paul Joseph Goebbels (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈjoːzɛf ˈɡœbl̩s] ( listen); 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
On April 30, 1803, representatives of the United States and Napoleonic France conclude negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, a massive land sale that doubles the size of the young American republic.
