#7 Maite Duenas

He was born Booker Taliaferro into slavery to Jane, an enslaved woman, and a white father…his mother denied his white father. When her mother married, he took the last name for his step father.  His family gained freedom in 1865 as the Civil War ended, and his mother took them to West Virginia to join her husband. As as a boy of 9 in Virginia, he remembered the day in early 1865 when accepted Emancipation Proclamation that day his mother was very happy because she was prayed for many years and finally her prayers were not in vain .His adolescent was a little difficult but pushed on, he worked in a variety of manual labor jobs before making his way to Hampton Roads seeking an education, he became an African-American educator, author, and advisor to Republican presidents. 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 American leaders born in slavery, he spoke on behalf of the large majority of blacks who lived in the South but had lost their ability to vote through disfranchisement by southern legislatures. Washington maintained power because of his ability to gain support of numerous groups: influential whites; the black business, educational and religious communities nationwide; financial donations from philanthropists, and his accommodation to the political realities of the age of Jim Crow segregationa dominant figure of the African-American community from 1890 to his death in 1915, especially after his Atlanta Address of 1895.
In conclusion how we read on the biografy from Booker T Washington if we have pleasure and strength to do anything we can do that like we see in his story because the life is not easy.