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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.
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Booker T. Washington Park is a Texas state park, located at Comanche Crossing, Limestone County, Texas, near Mexia. [2] History. Starting in the late 1860s, formerly ...
Marian Anderson christens the SS Booker T. Washington, the first large oceangoing ship named for an African American. First African American to be awarded the Navy Cross: Doris Miller; First African-American member of the U.S. Marine Corps: Alfred Masters [160]
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of the American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and ...
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Fannie Smith Washington (1858 – May 4, 1884) was an American educator, and the first wife of Booker T. Washington. Before her premature death in 1884, Fannie Washington aided her husband in the early development of the Tuskegee Institute .