Timothy Thomas Fortune | |
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| Born | October 3, 1856 Marianna, Florida, U.S. |
| Died | June 2, 1928 (aged 71) |
| Alma mater | Stanton High School for Negroes |
| Occupation(s) | Orator, author, publisher, and African American civil rights leader |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse |
Carrie Smiley (m. 1878) |
| Children | 5 |
Timothy Thomas Fortune (October 3, 1856 – June 2, 1928) was an American orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. He was the highly influential editor of the nation's leading black newspaper The New York Age and was the leading economist in the black community. He was a long-time adviser to Booker T. Washington and was the editor of Washington's first autobiography, The Story of My Life and Work.[1] Fortune's philosophy of militant agitation on behalf of the rights of black people laid one of the foundations of the Civil Rights Movement.
- ^ Charlotte D. Fitzgerald, "The Story of My Life and Work: Booker T. Washington’s Other Autobiography," The Black Scholar (2001) 21#4, pp. 35–40.