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Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was the founder and first principal of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, in 1881, originally a training college for blacks, which subsequendy gained a prestigious reputation.

He maintained that economic independence was the way for blacks to achieve sodal equality.

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Booker T. Washington was an American educationist, pioneer in higher education for beach people in the southern USA. read more...

Tags: educationist, pioneer, founder

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