{"id":1330,"date":"2024-02-12T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2024-02-12T21:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T21:21:40","slug":"booker-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Booker T."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In recognition of Black History Month it was my pleasure to speak to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Raleigh last week on the topic &#8220;<em>Booker T. Washington: Savior of His Race or Traitor?<\/em>&#8221; We had a great discussion and the audience argued for and against the question posed in the title of the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used electronic responders to engage the audience on a quiz about the life of Mr. Washington as we traveled through the PowerPoint slides. I wouldn&#8217;t call the slide below a trick question but 2\/3 of the audience missed it. George Washington Carver was the scientist at Tuskegee recognized for his peanut research, not Booker T. Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/peanuts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/peanuts.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/peanuts-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/peanuts-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of Black History Month it was my pleasure to speak to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Raleigh last week on the topic &#8220;Booker T. Washington: Savior of His Race or Traitor?&#8221; We had a great discussion and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=1330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}