Introduction
Booker T. Washington was an educator and racial spokesmen for blacks throughout America. His desire for an education was the thing that pushed him through life, and after the civil war he set out to get one. He became a teacher and later went on to found the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama, a school where blacks were trained in agricultural jobs.
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"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."
-Booker T. Washington |
Thesis:
Booker T. Washington deserves the achievement in rights award for founding schools and helping black people across America get an education, and his significant progress in education for African Americans in the south can still be seen today.