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Booker T. Washington: Garnet Character
Booker T. Washington (1856 to 1915) was born into slavery in Virginia and became the first leader of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881. His 1895 Atlanta speech made him the most prominent Black leader in the country, though critics such as W.E.B. Du Bois disagreed with his approach.
- Cost
- 3 crystals
- Type
- Character · Leader
- Power / Health
- 2 / 3
- Color
- Garnet (Rebels, Pirates & War)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
On play: draw a card.
Educational pioneer who rose from slavery to become the most influential Black leader of his generation.
The real history
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia, on the James Burroughs plantation. After slavery ended, his mother moved him to Malden, West Virginia, where he worked as a salt packer and a coal miner and taught himself to read.
At age 16 he traveled more than 500 miles to Hampton Institute with very little money. He put himself through school by working as a janitor, graduated at 19 and then taught at Hampton, including in its night school.
In June 1881 Washington arrived in Tuskegee, Alabama, to lead a new school. Tuskegee Institute opened on July 4, 1881, with 30 students, under a charter from the Alabama legislature to train teachers. It combined academic and vocational training. Under his direction, students built their own buildings, produced their own food and provided most of their own basic needs.
On September 18, 1895, Washington spoke at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. The speech stressed accommodation rather than resistance to segregation, and W.E.B. Du Bois later called it the "Atlanta Compromise." From 1895 to 1915 Washington was the most prominent African American leader in the nation. In 1901 he became the first African American invited to dinner at the White House.
Critics such as Du Bois argued that he favored vocational education over academic study and played down racism and discrimination. Washington died on November 14, 1915, at age 59.
Sources
- Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, National Park Service
- Tuskegee Institute, Training Leaders, Library of Congress
In the game's story
He saw a crowd of arrivals with nothing to do, and built a school.
How the card plays
Booker T. Washington costs 3 crystals and is a 2/3 Garnet Leader. When he enters play, draw a card. He is a steady value play: a fair body that replaces itself.
Use him on turn three to keep your hand full while you build toward expensive plays. Save him for a turn when you cannot use all your crystals on a bigger play. New Deal New Deal is a cheap Triumph that adds a crystal to your pool and draws a card, so the two together smooth your mana for big turns. The Flag The Flag gives all your characters +1/+1, and Parley Parley is a two-crystal counter that cancels an attack against you.
- Playable in decks led by Edward Teach "Blackbeard", and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Garnet.
- In the Blackbeard starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-Aj4BPwFAAUEBQgFDAUQCRQFGAkcBSAFJAkoBSwFMAU0BTgFPAlACUQFSAVMCVAFVAVYBVwFYAVkBWgFbAVwBXQJeAW9C - A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
Questions about Booker T. Washington
What was the Atlanta Compromise?
It was the name W.E.B. Du Bois later gave to Booker T. Washington's speech at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. The speech stressed accommodation rather than resistance to segregation.
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