John Spencer Bassett
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American historian
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- PhD History Johns Hopkins University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Spencer Bassett was an American historian. He was a professor at Trinity College , and is best known today for the "Bassett Affair" in 1903 when he publicly criticized racism among Southern elites, and called Booker T. Washington, "all in all the greatest man, save General Lee, born in the South in 100 years." Despite widespread outrage, the college trustees refused to accept Bassett's resignation by a vote of 18 to 7. After Trinity, he became a professor of history at Smith College in Massachusetts. and was the executive director of the American Historical Association for many years.
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