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Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915), was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States.

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“No race can prosper, Booker T. Washington wrote “until it learns that their is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a pome.” Washington was born in April 1856. As a slave on a virginia plantation, he was not allow to enter the nearby school because he was black. He still walk to school each day, how ever, not as a student, but to carry the books of the plantation owners daughter. Later he went to a all-black school and became a leading black educator.

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"No race can prosper," Booker T. Washington wrote, "until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." Washington was born in April 1856. As a slave on a Virginia plantation, he was not allowed to enter the nearby school because he was black. He still walked to school each day, however, not as a student, but to carry the books of the plantation owner's daughter. Later he went to an all-black school and became a leading black educator.

 

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