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"Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are": The Parallel Views of Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald on the Road to Equality

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From: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Date: 20060401
Author:Aamidor, Abraham

The story of Booker T. Washington is well known. Born near Roanoke, Virginia, in 1856 to an enslaved mother and an unidentified white man who had his way with her, Washington worked in mines and did other manual labor in his youth. Somehow, he learned to read and write well enough, and eventually he made his way to the Hampton Institute, which had been founded in 1868 by a Union Army general near Hampton, Virginia. The school emphasized manual arts education for ex-slaves; this was a program Washington was to largely emulate when he became headmaster of the Tuskegee Institute, near Tuskegee, ...

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