He says in early life he used to cherish a feeling of ill will toward any people who spoke in bitter terms against the Negro. He was an actual slave, right? What are we complaining about? This guy was owned His mom was owned his brother and sister were owned And he's not letting these grievances overshadow his opportunities. We must begin and not at the top Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our oppu opportunities.
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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