Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington
<Tab/>Booker T. Washington was the most influential black leader and educator of his time. He became well-known largely because of his role as founder and head of Tuskegee Institute, a school for blacks in Tuskegee, Alabama. He influenced the meeting of several blacks to federal office. Washington described his rise from slavery to national fame as an educator in his autobiography, Up from Slavery in 1901.
<Tab/>Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave in Hales Ford, Virginia, on April 5, 1856. After the U.S. government freed all slaves…