Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I - Booker T. Washington

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Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I

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About Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, most famous for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University (1880–1915).

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Birth Name: Booker Taliaferro Washington
Alternative Names: Booker Washington
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notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe.

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