educator
Booker T. Washington.
African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)
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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
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About Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
Everything about Booker T. Washington →- Occupation
- educator, writer, autobiographer, pedagogue
- Position held
- civil rights advocate, president, head teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 5, 1856
- Died
- November 14, 1915