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Booker T. Washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. ... Park Home Page | Booker T. Washington Returns to His Birthplace | Ethnographic Overview and Assessment

The 1870s to the start of World War I, the period when African American educator Booker T. Washington was gaining prominence, was also a difficult time for African Americans.

Born a slave and deprived of any early education, Booker Taliaferro Washington nonetheless became America's foremost black educator of the early 20th century. ... Encarta: Booker T. Washington

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Nonfiction > Booker T. Washington > Up from Slavery ... The son of a slave, Booker Taliaferro Washington worked his way out the salt furnaces and coal mines to develop the esteemed Tuskegee Institute.

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Booker T. Washington and Character Education at Tuskegee Institute 1881-1915 ... Born a slave, Booker T. Washington rose to become the commonly recognized leader of the Negro race in America.

by Booker T. Washington; WHEN a mere boy, I saw a young colored man, who had spent several years in school, sitting in a common cabin in the South, studying a French grammar.

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the nation's African-American community from the 1890s to his death. Born into slavery and freed by the Civil War in 1865, he led the new Tuskegee...