For 10 points, name this black leader criticized for his focus on vocational skills by W.E.B. DuBois, the author of Up from Slavery and leader of the Tuskegee Institute.
This man collaborated with the urban ecologist Robert E. Park on a study of European poverty called The Man Farthest Down. His advisory role on a German colonial expedition to Togo is recounted in Louis Harlan's two-volume, Bancroft prize-winning biography, and he recalled his journey to see Samuel C. Armstrong after leaving Kanawha valley's coal mines in his own memoirs. This Hampton alumnus imagined "nearly sixteen millions of hands" lifting a load six years before he dined at the White House with Theodore Roosevelt. He advised "Cast down your bucket where you are" in his "Atlanta Compromise" speech. For 10 points, name this black leader criticized for his focus on vocational skills by W.E.B. DuBois, the author of Up from Slavery and leader of the Tuskegee Institute.
This man collaborated with the urban ecologist Robert E. Park on a study of European poverty called The Man Farthest Down.
Booker Taliaferro Washington