Booker T. Washington taught at what is now Hampton University before founding Tuskegee Institute in Macon County during the early 1880s.
Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington taught at what is now Hampton University before founding Tuskegee Institute in Macon County during the early 1880s.