Booker T Washington

Booker T. Washington was an influential African American educator, author, and leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into slavery in 1856, he went on to become the founder and principal of the Tuskegee Institute, a renowned institution dedicated to the education and vocational training of African Americans. Washington’s philosophy of self-help and practical education, outlined in his famous autobiography “Up from Slavery,” emphasized economic independence and racial harmony. His efforts to improve the lives of African Americans through education and economic empowerment had a lasting impact on the civil rights movement in the United States.