![]() ![]() Between 18, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary Black elite. ![]() This established him on a path of fitting into the white world.In the course of his life he established the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, helped found the National Negro Business League, now eclipsed by the NAACP, and advised several US presidents. The only name he had known was "Booker," but at school, when first asked his name by the teacher, he coolly added "Washington" to be like the other children who had at least two names. ![]() His mother took the family to the free state of West Virginia. a piece of bread here and a scrap of meat there."He was nine when his family gained their emancipation and he describes the rejoicing and the apprehension as freed slaves entered a new life. On the plantation in Virginia, and even later, meals were gotten to the children very much as dumb animals get theirs. He was born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia, remembering"I cannot recall a single instance during my childhood or early boyhood when our entire family sat down to the table together. Washington (ApNovember 14, 1915) was an African American educator, leader, author and orator and was an adviser to several US presidents. ![]()
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