Up from Slavery & The Negro Problem (Annotated)

Summary

Booker T. Washington was born a slave on a Virginia farm in 1856 and died November 14, 1915. Even though Booker was born a slave, he went on to become one of the most influential African American intellectuals of the 19th century.  Booker was many things, and among them, he was an orator, author, teacher, and advisor to presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Between the years 1890 and 1915, Booker was the controlling leader in the African American community.

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