Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute (Primary Sources of the Civil Rights Movement)

"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"-- Publisher Presents the life and accomplishments of the nineteenth-century educator, from his childhood born into slavery to his founding of the Tuskegee Institute and his commitment to civil rights.