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Who Was Booker T. Washington?

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Learn how a slave became one of the most leading influential African American intellectuals of the late 19th century.

African American educator, writer, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the USA, Booker Taliaferro Washington used to be the leading voice of former slaves and their descendants right through the late 1800s. As a part of the last generation of leaders born into slavery, Booker believed that blacks could better progress in society through education and entrepreneurship, quite than seeking to immediately challenge the Jim Crow segregation. After hearing the Emancipation Proclamation and realizing he used to be free, young Booker made up our minds to make learning his life. He taught himself to read and write, pursued a formal education, and went on to found the Tuskegee Institute–a black school in Alabama–with the goal of building the community’s economic strength and pride. The institute still exists and is home to famous alumnae like scientist George Washington Carver.

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