Lead Stories Booker T. Washington Wikimedia Commons/Library of
Congress Booker T. Washington  Black History Month’s invisible
man  Black History Month | Booker T. Washington was an early
role model for racial reconciliation but is often ignored today
Racial reconciliation should be high on the agenda for American
Christians. But the drive for reconciliation, like many other
things, can be based on God’s wisdom or modern man’s.  That
drive for reconciliation can emphasize the importance for all
people of marriage, work, and worship. It can help us to
identify each other not by the color of our skin but by the
content of our belief. Or, it can lure those with guilt feelings
to speak a form of cultural Ebonics by supporting programs of
reverse racism and governmental aggrandizement.  Which way will
we go? We learn what to do primarily from reading the Bible, but
a study of history provides supportive detail. One man’s life
and beliefs shows that centrality particularly well: Booker T.
Washington (1856-1915). He