"I had the feeling that in a large measure my future depended upon the impression I made upon the teacher in the cleaning of that room when I was through," he writes. "The head teacher offered me a position as janitor and I gladly accepted because it was a place where I could work out nearly all the cost of my board" He also recalls general Samuel C. Armstrong's influence on his education at Hampton Institute.
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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