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Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington
An advocate of strong vocational education for black Americans, Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now called Tuskegee University, in Alabama in 1881.
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African American History; United States (History); Washington, Booker T(aliaferro); Tuskegee University
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