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Booker T Washington Research Paper

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Booker T. Washington: The early life of Booker T. Washington was a African American Educator. During the four years after his graduation in 1875, he taught school at Malden, West Virginia. Washington came to exert control over giving to black colleges. Washington “advocated a policy of black accommodation to the oppressive climate”. Booker T Washington was raised in Virginia on a farm near Hale’s ford. He was born on April 5, 1856. His mother, Jane Ferguson was a slave and cook for James Burroughs which is Booker’s Father a white man. Washington exerted his influence to stem the tide of disenfranchisement. Booker said that “The slaves that he grew up with on the farm was very much like one big family”. Booker was a mulatto baby. Booker also
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