1. Booker T. Washington
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2. Birth of leader for civil right movements
Booker T. Washington was born in April 5, He was born in Hale's Ford, Virginia, U.S.

3. Early Life
Booker T. washington life had little promise early on. He was a child of slave and he become a slave too. At an early age, he started working. His first exposure to education was from outside of a school house near the plantation. After the Civil war booker and his mother moved to Maldon,West virginia. His family was very poor,and he went to work instead of school.His mother notice that he’s interested in education and she got him a book where he learned the alphabet. In 1866 he got a good job as houseboy. The house where he used to work the owner find out he’s intelligent so she gave him a chance to school for an hour during winter.

4. Booker T. Washington put himself through school and became a teacher after the Civil war. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and industrial institute in Alabama,which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. AS a political advisor and writer Washington clashed with intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois over the best avenues for racial uplift. With all the stuff he was also a writer and he wrote a total of five book. After that he became a leader for school in Tuskegee.
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5. In 1895, Booker T. Washington publicly put forth his philosophy on race relations in a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta." After that activists like W.E.B. Du Bois deplored Washington's conciliatory philosophy and his belief that African Americans were only suited to vocational training. Du Bois criticized Washington for not demanding equality for African Americans, as granted by the 14th Amendment, and subsequently became an advocate for full and equal rights in every realm of a person's life.
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6. In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T
In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House, making him the first African American to be so honored.Both President Roosevelt and his successor, President William Howard Taft, used Washington as an adviser on racial matters, partly because he accepted racial subservience.
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7. .Booker T. Washington remained the head of Tuskegee Institute until his death on November 14, 1915, at the age of 59, of congestive heart failure.
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8. Booker T. Washington committed to the betterment of black people in the United States, and he was very forward looking and insightful. Washington was a pragmatist in the John Dewey sense of pragmatism, where you’re really working with a significant problematic, and Washington’s problematic was thought that the best way to do that was for the races to work together, and in order to accomplish that, black people had to be able to bring something to the table. That’s what building Tuskegee was about bringing something to the table.
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10. https://www. awesomestories. com/asset/view/Booker-T

11. Sources https://www.biography.com/people/booker-t-washington-9524663