biography
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Washington, Booker T(aliaferro)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1915)
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| biography:
| Black leader and educationist, born in Franklin Co, Virginia, USA. After emancipation (1865), he studied at Hampton Institute, Virginia, and Washington, DC, becoming a teacher, writer, and speaker on black problems. In 1881 he was appointed principal of the newly opened Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, and built it up into a major centre of black education. He was the foremost black leader in late 19th-c USA, winning white support by his acceptance of the separation of blacks and whites. He was strongly criticized by Du Bois, and his policies were repudiated by the 20th-c civil rights movement. |
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