By: Ardis E. Parshall - March 13, 2013 Booker T. Washington, born into slavery on a Virginia plantation in 1856, had gone on to a brilliant career in education. As head of what was then the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama, Washington had taken a struggling school with one teacher and fewer than 50 students and transformed it into the world headquarters for black education. Where there was any opportunity for reac...
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