[aynrandfreak]

He was publicly maligned by the Communist W.E.B. Du Bois, which is why he’s less well-known today.

[niteowl77]

He was publicly maligned by the Communist W.E.B. Du Bois, which is why he’s less well-known today.

Yep. Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver (soon to be followed by Frederick Douglass) are essentially non-persons now, while the loathesome Du Bois is "hip."

One of the nicer things about mortality is that I do not expect to be reminded of - let alone troubled by - socialist community organizers in the afterlife.

[Antoninus]

He was publicly maligned by the Communist W.E.B. Du Bois, which is why he’s less well-known today.

Yup. I remember my Black college friends trashing Booker T. in favor of W.E.B. DuBois. Based on how they behaved, I knew that Booker T. was the better path to follow.