13th day of #BlackHistoryMonth 𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐭 𝐉𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭 #HappyBirthday Born February 13, 1873 A native of #HoustonTexas, Scott garnered a reputation as Booker T. Washington’s chief aide. He was also the highest-ranking #AfricanAmerican in the Woodrow Wilson’s Administration. Born the son of ex-slaves, in 1887, he entered #WileyCollege in Marshall, Texas, eventually leaving school in his third year. Soon he worked at the Houston Post, first as a #sexton, and later as a copyboy and journalist. In 1893 Scott, along with Charles N. Love and Jack Tibbit, formed the #TexasFreeman, #Houston’s first African American newspaper. Scott also worked for Galveston, Texas, politician and labor leader, Norris W. Cuney. Scott caught the attention of Booker T. Washington, who hired him in 1897. For the next eighteen years, Scott served Washington as a confidant, personal secretary, speech writer, and #ghostwriter; in 1912, he became Tuskegee’s treasurer-secretary. Scott advocated Washington’s philosophy of constructive accommodation over immediate social integration. Scott and New York Age editor T. Thomas Fortune helped Washington found the National Negro Business League (NNBL) in 1900. In 1917, two years after Washington’s death, #President Woodrow Wilson appointed Scott’s special advisor of black affairs to Secretary of War Newton Baker. Scott wrote reports on conditions facing African Americans during the period, which were published as The American Negro in the World War (1919) and #Negro #Migration during the First World War (1920). From 1919 to 1932, Scott was the business manager and secretary-treasurer of @Howard1867 , retiring from the college in 1938. During #WorldWarII, Scott worked for the Sun Shipbuilding Company of Chester, Pennsylvania, and helped the company create Yard No. 4 for black laborers. Scott was married and had five children, all of whom graduated from college. He and his wife also raised his five younger sisters, who also earned their degrees. Scott died in Washington, D.C., in 1957 at the age of 84. (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8g42eJAbsJ/?igshid=17ydqbf86ang5
