Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute /

Bailey, Budd, 1955-

Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute / Budd Bailey. - 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm - Primary sources of the civil rights movement . - Primary sources of the civil rights movement. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-61) and index.

Introduction: down freedom's road -- Early days -- The speech -- Opposite reactions -- Changing attitudes -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

"Booker T. Washington was an educated black man who was very influential in the transition in the United States from the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery to the election of President Barack Obama. He believed education was key in helping lift African Americans out of poverty and built the Tuskegee Institute to provide that education" --

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 --Juvenile literature.


Tuskegee Institute--History--Juvenile literature.


African American educators--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Education--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964--Juvenile literature.


Biographies.

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