Timothy Thomas Fortune

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Timothy Thomas Fortune was an American orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. He was the highly influential editor of the nation's leading African American newspaper The New York Age and was the leading economist in the African American community. He was a long-time adviser and friend to Booker T. Washington and was the editor of Washington's first autobiography, The Story of My Life and Work. Fortune's philosophy of militant agitation on behalf of the rights of African American people laid one of the foundations of the Civil Rights Movement.