"I reached the I reached Hampton with a surplus of exactly 50 cents with which to begin my education To me it had been a long eventful journey But the first site of the large three-story brick school building seemed to have rewarded me for all that I'd undergone" "Never did I receive an order with more delight? I knew that I could sweep for Mrs. Ruffner."
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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