The primary voice of the African American community from 1890 to 1915, and the author of Up from Slavery, Booker T.
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Washington proposed that most African Americans would benefit from a practical trade rather than a liberal arts education -- a position opposed by other black leaders, including W.
Washington was an educator and orator as well as a founder of the Alabama school that developed into Tuskegee University.
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