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Booker T. Washington (view source)
Revision as of 23:37, December 27, 2007
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Born into [[slavery]], Washington grew up without an education because it was illegal for slaves to learn how to read.<ref>http://www.ushistory.net/toc/washington.html</ref> After the [[Civil War]], he began to attend school, and worked as a janitor at the [[Hampton Institute]] in order to pay for his education. He later became an instructor at this school, and in 1891, founded the [[Tuskegee Institute]] for blacks.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/archive/bowa/btwbio.html</ref> In 1895, he gave the famous [[Atlanta Compromise]] speech in which he simultaneously exhorted African Americans to work and white employers to hire them.
Born into [[slavery]], Washington grew up without an education because it was illegal for slaves to learn how to read.<ref>http://www.ushistory.net/toc/washington.html</ref> After the [[Civil War]], he began to attend school, and worked as a janitor at the [[Hampton Institute]] in order to pay for his education. He later became an instructor at this school, and in 1891, founded the [[Tuskegee Institute]] for blacks.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/archive/bowa/btwbio.html</ref> In 1895, he gave the famous [[Atlanta Compromise]] speech in which he simultaneously exhorted African Americans to work and white employers to hire them.
In 1906, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] invited Washington to a formal dinner at the [[White House]]. Many Americans were shocked at this due to Washington's race, and Roosevelt was unable to invite him back for political reasons, although Washington remained as an advisor to Roosevelt. <ref>
Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, "A Patriot's History of the United States" (Sentinel 2007)</ref>
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