A Biography of Booker T. Washington (324 words, 1 pages)
WASHINGTON, Booker T(aliaferro) (1856-1915), American educator, who urged blacks to attempt to uplift themselves through educational attainments and economic advancement. Washington was born April 5, 1856, on a plantation in Franklin Co., Va., the son of a slave. Following the American Civil War, his family moved to Malden, W.Va., where ...
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