Booker T. Washington

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This paper is a brief biography of the African American leader Booker T. Washington. The paper characterizes Washington as an astute politician and pragmatist. The paper also includes negative criticisms of Washington's views and actions.

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"Booker T Washington was an astute politician and a pragmatist. He was not an apologist or an enabler of segregation. He believed in the idea that steady progress towards equality for all Americans was a goal worth working for and he worked his entire life to elevate the status of Black Americans. In April Booker T Washington was born in slavery on a acre tobacco farm in Virginia."

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