Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1856, and became an educator, author, speaker and leader of the African-American community. He is best known for his efforts to advocate education for African-Americans, and became a professor at the Tuskegee Institute. For more on African-American History, see the Black History Month feature, and for more on the Civil Rights Movement, see The American Civil Rights Movement feature.