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Washington was a famed public speaker and an author of 5 books:
“The Story of My Life and Work” (1900)

· “Up From Slavery” (1901)

· “The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery” (1909)

· “My Larger Education” (1911)

· “The Man Farthest Down” (1912)

These books talked about life as an african american during the civil war era and jim crow era.

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Booker T. Washington was one of the African American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born into slavery and went to school and became a teacher after the civil war. He later created a couple institutes for african americans. He was also a writer and a reformer.

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Booker T. washington was born in Franklin County, Virginia on April 5th, 1856. He died on november 14th, 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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Booker T. Washington's mother was a slave, so he was born into slavery too. As a young kid he was working hard labor and his mother was a cook for the plantation's owner. His father was a white man who was unknown. Once the civil war ended, his family was freed. The family moved to Malden, West Virginia.

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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

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.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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In 1872, Washington walked 500 miles to go to a institute for formerly enslaved people. This institute was called Hampton Institute. He received amazing grades and was a great students. he later went to study at Wayland Seminary but would later return to hampton in 1879 to become a teacher at the institute. He later then became a principal in a new school in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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-He had an italian middle name
-He had a great sense of humor
-He had dinner with Theodore Roosevelt at the White House and acted like it never happened.
-He published an autobiography 1 year after publishing his first one because he was unsatisfied

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One of the major accomplishments of Booker T Washington was his founding of the Tuskegee Institute . Unlike the majority of African Americans, Washington was one of the fortunate few that finished his education. Despite being born into slavery, his emancipation and access to learning led him to begin teaching. Washington became widely known as a writer. His most popular autobiography, Up from Slavery, was published in 1901 and translated into many languages. In addition to his autobiographies, he wrote works explaining his ideas about achieving social justice for African Americans.