Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. Between 18, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 – 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools-most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama-to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. "Up from Slavery" is the autobiography of Booker T.
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