130th anniversary of Booker T. Washington speech in Atlanta marks re-evaluation: Templeton
ATLANTA — John William Templeton “The Black Encyclopedia” will show hundreds of members of the Atlanta Black Chamber Tuesday, Sept. 16 how the 1895 speech by Booker T. Washington maps their course for the future.
The editor of blackmoney.com, marking its 30th year and the Journal of Black Innovation says characterizations of the speech’s phrase “cast down your buckets where you are” obscure the detailed industrialization plan that Washington carried out from Tuskegee Institute.
As the founder of the Journal of Black Innovation National Black Business Month®, Templeton will give them a Fast Break to the Promised Land relying on Our10Plan: the African-American economic strategy to replicate past mass movements.
The Atlanta Black Chamber is marking its 20th year led by Chair Markee Tate and President Melvin Coleman with founder Michael T. Hill as executive director of the Chamber Foundation.
Templeton is author of ReUNION: State of Black Business, 22d edition and Come This Far By Faith: African-Americans 1980-2024 and chair of the Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. in New York City.
