Whose Birthday Is It? April 5, 2016

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856)

Born into slavery, Washington was freedfollowing the US Civil War and went on tobecome one of the nation’s most prominentleaders and educators. He built Alabama’sTuskegee Institute into a leading African-American educational institution, withprograms emphasizing vocational training. His teaching, writing,and lecturing—particularly a famous address in Atlanta, Georgia,in 1895—established him as America’s foremost black leader.Washington was the first African American to be invited where?More…

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