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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
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was the most influential black leader and educator of his time in the
U.S. Born a slave in Virginia, Washington was educated at Hampton
Institute, Norfold, Virginia. In 1881, he founded Tuskegee
Institute, a vocational school for blacks in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Washington advised two presidents - Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard
Taft - on racial problems and policies. For years presidential
political appointments of African-Amercians were cleared through
him. In 1900, he founded the National Negro Business League to help
black business firms.
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