Background
Scott was born on February 13, 1873 in Houston, Texas, United States; the son of Horace L. Scott and Emma (Kyle) Scott.
Emmett J. Scott and Booker T. Washington.
(This book is an illustrated version of the original Booke...)
This book is an illustrated version of the original Booker T. Washington by Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe.
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Scott was born on February 13, 1873 in Houston, Texas, United States; the son of Horace L. Scott and Emma (Kyle) Scott.
Scott graduated from the Colored High School in Houston in 1887. The same year he entered the Wiley College, but left three years later to pursue a career in journalism.
Scott began his career at the Houston Post, where he worked as a janitor, copy boy and journalist. In 1893 he, along with Charles N. Love and Jack Tibbit, formed the Texas Freeman, Houston’s first African American newspaper. Scott became its editor soon after the newspaper began circulation.
In 1897, he was appointed a confidant, personal secretary, speech writer to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee University. Fifteen years later Emmett was appointed a treasurer-secretary of that university and had held the position until 1917. Also he served as a secretary of National Negro Business League from 1900 to 1922.
In 1917, Emmett became a special advisor of black affairs to secretary of war Newton Baker. Two years later he held a position of a secretary-treasurer of Howard University, where he worked until 1934. Scott remained as a secretary of that university until his forced retirement in 1939.
During World War II, Emmett worked for the Sun Shipbuilding Company of Chester, and helped the company create Yard No. 4 for black laborers.
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Scott was a member of the United States Liberian Commission and National Council of Young Men’s Christian Association.
Scott was married to Eleonore J. Baker. They have five children.