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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Obscurant

n.

One who opposes intellectual advancement and political reform.

adj.

Characterized by opposition to intellectual advancement and political reform.

(1901) William Hooper Councill’s Letter to the White People of Alabama

  Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era.  There we...