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Essay Archive - Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man
Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man
Booker T. Washington was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will to work
were well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, delivering
speech after speech expressing his views on how to uplift America's view of the
Negro. He felt that knowledge was power, not just knowledge of "books", but
knowledge of agricultural and industrial trades. He felt that the Negro would
rise to be an equal in American society through hard work. Washington founded a
scho....
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