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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020602
Author:Booker T Washington

Booker T Washington was born a slave on a small farm in Virginia in 1856. Following emancipation, he moved with his family to work in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia. In 1872 he went to study at the Hampton Institute and in 1881 he founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Washington was renowned for his work around the education of black people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He had a major influence on southern race relations and was a dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. He also worked as an adviser to President Theodore ...

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