VOA NEWS: WEBSITE OF THE WEEK - BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PAPERS

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By Art Chimes

Time again for our Website of the Week, and this time - as we begin Black History Month in the United States - we feature the work of one of the great names in African-American culture. At the same time this site highlights one way the web is changing the world of scholarship.

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He went on to establish what is now Tuskegee University in Alabama, one of the most important African-American educational institutions of his time. Thousands of pages of his writings, are now available ...

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