Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington
Author: first_name: Walter Clinton
last_name: Jackson
Language: English
Year: 1922

Booker T. Washington was one of the first nationally recognized African American leaders after the Civil War.  He was born to a slave woman in Virginia, who then took him as a young boy to West Virginia after the emancipation.  Booker became a leader in education heading the Tuskegee Institute for more than 30 years and working with other universities.  He advocated a moderate approach to elevating the African Americans through education and business, but worked behind the scenes to change discr