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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
school on these principles, and it became the world\'s leader in agricultural and
industrial education for the Negro. As the world watched him put his heart and
soul into his school, Tuskegee Institute, he gained great respect from both the
white and black communities. Many of the country\'s white leaders agreed with
his principals, and so he had a great deal of support.

Booker T. Washington was a great man. He put his own needs aside in order to
build the......

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