Booker T. Washington World Cares Very Little Great T-Shirt

Showcase your inspirational and motivational side with this intelligent quote by African American activist in the late 19th century, Booker T. Washington. Washington was of the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants, who were newly oppressed by disfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Washington was infamous for his advocacy of educational and economic advancement among the African American community during his time. Recreated on this tee is Booker T. Washington's sound advice and inspirational words of wisdom: "The world cares very little about what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do."