BB#7 BY MARINA

                                                    Booker T. Washington,

He was born in April 05, 1856. He  was an American  educator, and political leader.  He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Representative of the last generation of black leaders born in slavery,   spokesman for black Americans between 1895 and 1915. He get an education,  at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia (1872), working as a janitor to help pay expenses.  He graduated in 1875 and returned to Malden, where for two years he taught children in a day school and adults at night. Following studies at Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C. (1878–79),
In 1881 Washington was selected to  normal school for blacks at Tuskegee, an institution with two small converted buildings, no equipment, and very little money.
 Even Washington's visit to the White House in 1901. 
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became a monument to his life's work. At his death 34 years later, it had more than 100 well-equipped buildings, some 1,500 students, a faculty of nearly 200 teaching 38 trades and professions, and an endowment of approximately $2 million.

 Booker T. Washington focused on having education for real life jobs and not asking for equality from the whites. He just focused on getting help from the whites and accepting their place as blacks on earth.