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﻿Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington was born in Hale's Ford, VA on April 5, 1856 as a slave. His family consisted of Portia his daughter from his first wife Fanny, his two sons Booker Jr. and Ernest from his second wife Olivia, and his third wife Margaret who widowed after his death on November 14, 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama as a free man. He schooled in Wayland Seminary. As a slave, he worked in Tuskegee, Alabama for the Burroughs "plantation". He was owned by James Burroughs and his work was to carry books for one of the owner's daughters. How he showed he was against slavery was he donated money to "legal battles for African-American's rights" and gave speeches. One of Booker T. Washington's famous quotes were: “In all things that are purely social we can be separate as the fingers yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” ﻿﻿I'm proud of this man's actions during slavery because he tried to make both African-Americans and whites support him, and I envy his strategy. He was the first African American that was honored on a coin and on a postal stamp.

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