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Booker T. Washington

Born a slave, Booker T. Washington became the nation's preeminent African-American educator and author in the post-Civil War era. An advocate of higher education and economic self-sufficiency as a means to social equality for black citizens (as detailed in his autobiography "Up From Slavery"), he also founded the Tuskegee Institute (now university) in 1881.
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