Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was a leading African American educator and author who founded what is now Tuskegee University and stirred controversy by putting economic advancement ahead of civil rights. He established rural educational outreach programs and was a national spokesman for improving the lives of African Americans during the early twentieth century.
Booker T. Washington, ca. 1885
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