Leader of African American Community – Booker T. Washington
Words: 1307 Pages: 4 4758He is an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in Virginia. He was born into a slave family with no father; his father is said to be a white man who resided in a neighboring plantation. Although a slave, he was an eager man and had a hunger for education. When he was 9 years old, he and his family gained freedom under the emancipation proclamation and […]