Booker T. Washington Quotes of Success

Booker T. Washington
Born in Hale's Ford, Virginia, The United States April 05, 1856
Died November 14, 1915
Genre Social Sciences, Nonfiction
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author, and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death. Born to slavery and freed by the Civil War in 1865, as a young man, became head of the new Tuskegee Institute, then a teachers' college for blacks. It became his base of operations. His "Atlanta Exposition" speech of 1895 appealed to middle-class whites across the South, asking them to give blacks a chance to work and develop separately, while implicitly promising not to demand the vote. White leaders across the North, from politicians to industrialists, from philanthropists to churchmen, enthusiastically supported Washington, as did most middle-class blacks.