"I have sometimes had the feeling that if I had inherited these and had been a member of a more popular race I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of Depending upon my ancestry and my color to do that for me, which I should do for myself," he writes. "Because I had no ancestry ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud ... Square it away." He lived with Viola Roughner before going to Hampton That's where she hid in school. The work was not only hard, but it was dangerous.
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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