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Booker T. Washington   /bˈʊkər ti wˈɑʃɪŋtən/   Listen
Booker T. Washington

noun
1.
United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915).  Synonyms: Booker Taliaferro Washington, Washington.






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"Booker t. washington" Quotes from Famous Books



... John Paul Jones Francis Scott Key Lafayette Robert E. Lee Leif the Lucky Abraham Lincoln Francis Marion Samuel F. B. Morse Florence Nightingale Annie Oakley Robert E. Peary William Penn Paul Revere Theodore Roosevelt Booker T. Washington George ...
— Daniel Boone - Taming the Wilds • Katharine E. Wilkie

... mixed blood who are ambitious socially and who present some of the most acute phases of the negro problem. It is from the mixed bloods that the leaders of the race in this country have come. The pure negro without intermixture has hitherto seemed incapable of leadership. Such men as Booker T. Washington, Professor Du Bois, and most other negro leaders have a considerable mixture of white blood. A list of 2200 negro authors was once compiled by the Librarian of Congress, and investigation showed that with very few exceptions these ...
— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood



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