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Booker T Washington

Booker T. Washington was born 1856 in Hales Ford, Virginia. Booker T. Washington became a influential black leader and educator who founded Tuskegee Institute and headed the school from 1881 to 1915. Tuskegee Institute was a school for black man and women to educates them self in farming and different trades such as print making and steel work. The goal was for black to have more money but also become teacher themselves. . In 1900 he founded the National Negro Business League to help black business men. Booker T. Washington is important because he founded one of the first black school and by doing so black Americans got a better education.

Bibliography

Krane, Rachel. __The Bibliography Dictionary of African Americans.__ New York, New York: Checkmark Books,1999. Print.

World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago:World Book, Inc, 2004. print.