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Published on Jun 11, 1999 | 240 Pages
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The Black educator documents his struggle for freedom and self-respect and his fight to establish industrial training programs.
The Black educator documents his struggle for freedom and self-respect and his fight to establish industrial training programs.
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) was born a slave on a Virginia farm. Later freed, he headed and developed the Tuskegee Institute and became a leader in education. Widely considered a spokesman for his people, he emphasized social concern in three books as well as his autobiography, Up from Slavery.
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