"I never taught pupils who gave me much genuine satisfaction as these did They were good students and mastered their work thoroughly," he said. "They would often urge me to continue the lessons after the usual hour for going to bed at home" He went on to talk about how this helped him learn how to help people prepare for this type of behavior in the future when he ended up with the Tuskegee 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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