Booker T. Washington - University of North Florida - Jacksonville, FL
N 30° 16.228 W 081° 30.525
17R E 451065 N 3348865
This plaque with a quote by Booker T. Washington is located in the lobby of the Coggin College of Business at the University of the North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMT39Y
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/18/2016
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The plaque is located near the base of a statue of a newspaper boy on a bicycle and reads:
"Nothing ever comes
to one, that is worth
having, except as a
result of hard work."
- Booker T. Washington
Th quote comes from Booker T. Washington's book "Up From Slavery: An Autobiography."
The following information about Booker T. Washington is from Wikipedia (
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"Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.
Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
His base was the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Alabama. As lynchings in the South reached a peak in 1895, Washington gave a speech, known as the "Atlanta compromise," which brought him national fame. He called for black progress through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to challenge directly the Jim Crow segregation and the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South. Washington mobilized a nationwide coalition of middle-class blacks, church leaders, and white philanthropists and politicians, with a long-term goal of building the community's economic strength and pride by a focus on self-help and schooling. But, secretly, he also supported court challenges to segregation and passed on funds raised for this purpose. Black militants in the North, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, at first supported the Atlanta compromise but after 1909, they set up the NAACP to work for political change. They tried with limited success to challenge Washington's political machine for leadership in the black community but also built wider networks among white allies in the North. Decades after Washington's death in 1915, the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s took a more active and militant approach, which was also based on new grassroots organizations based in the South, such as CORE, SNCC and SCLC."