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| I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living. | |
| Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Hales Ford
Virginia on April 5, 1856. After freed his family was so poor
stricken he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines at the age of
nine. As intelligent as he was it frustrated him that he could not
receive good schooling locally. Booker T. Washington was very skilled at politics . Powerful and influential in both the black and white communities, Washington was a secret advisor to presidents. For years, presidential political appointments of African-Americans were cleared through him. He was funded by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, dined at the White House with Theodore Roosevelt and family, and was the guest of the Queen of England at Windsor Castle
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