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  1. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite .

  2. Oct 29, 2009 · Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the late 19th century. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute and later formed the...

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · Booker T. Washington, educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for African Americans between 1895 and 1915.

  4. Apr 3, 2014 · Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.

  5. Booker T. Washington (1856 – November 14, 1915) was a leading African-American leader and intellectual of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He founded an educational establishment in Alabama and promoted a philosophy of economic self-reliance and self-improvement for the black population. Born a slave, Washington grew up in a ...

  6. May 3, 2024 · Booker T. Washington was an author, educator, orator, philanthropist, and, from 1895 until his death in 1915, the United States’ most famous African American. The tiny school he founded in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1881 is now Tuskegee University, an institution that currently enrolls more than 3,000 students. The most famous of the several books ...

  7. Booker T. Washington, educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and the most influential spokesman for African Americans between 1895 and 1915.

  8. Founding Tuskegee Institute. Born into slavery in 1856, Washington had experienced racism his entire life. When emancipated after the Civil War, he became one of the few African Americans to complete school, whereupon he became a teacher.

  9. How this educator helped African Americans improve their lives. By C.M. Tomlin. Booker T. Washington really wanted to go to school. Born on April 5, 1856—a time when most Black children weren't...

  10. Though born a slave, Washington attended the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, working as a janitor before graduating to join the Institute’s staff. In 1881 he became the first president of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama, now Tuskegee University.

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