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He was often criticized for his willingness to work with whites and not demand instant equality.

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Booker soon became one of the most powerful, African-American leaders during that time. The white people seemed to understand him more.

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He built Tuskegee Institute into a training center for African-American youth. He also had a very famous speech where he calls out black and whites on how they can be better.

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Booker put himself through college and later on was invited to be a teacher at his old school house. This lead him to become an equal rights activist. He also wrote 5 different books.

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Washington wrote a total of five 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), and The Man Farthest Down (1912).

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He was born into slavery, in Virginia in 1856. He and his mother were slaves in a kitchen and his father was an unknown white man. His father was most likely someone from a plantation.