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Essay Archive - The Life of Booker T. Washington
The Life of Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was a great influence for the black community.
The efforts this man put to become such a wonderful leader were incredible.
Booker T. Washington was a man that started up from scratch. He grew up as
a Black slave, who did not have much choices in life. He was born in
Virginia in 1856, and he had a white father and a black mother. After the
Emancipation Proclamation he went to work in a coal mine, while still a
child. When Booker was seventeen he went of to Hampton Institute, he worked
there as a janitor. He then became a student there. Followin....
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