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Booker T. Washington 5
Title: Booker T. Washington 5
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Booker T. Washington 5
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educators of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on southern race relations and was a dominant figure in black affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915.
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1858. As a slave Booker did not have a last name and chose "Washington," his stepfather's name. After the Civil War Booker, his brother, and his mother moved …showed first 75 words of 2961 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2961 total…that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than an opportunity to spend a dollar at an opera house."
WORKS CITED
Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery, an autobiography. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday.
Louis R. Harlan, Booker T Washington, 2 vols. (1972, 1983), with Raymond W. Smock, eds., The Booker T Washington Papers, 12 vols. (1972-): August Meier, Negro Thoughts in America, 1880-1915 (1963).
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