booker t washington
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Booker T. Washington, Civil
Rights Pioneer
When people think of civil rights, names like Martin
Luther King Jr. often come to mind, but rarely do people
ever stop to think, who started the civil rights movement
way before MLK? Well the answer to that is a man named
Booker T. Washington.
Booker T. started his life as a slave doing
backbreaking labor and living in poverty, on the property of
James Burroughs of Virginia in 1856. Not much is known of
his father, but his mother Jane raised him. Since it was
illegal for a slave to learn how to read and write, Booker
received no education.
On September 22, 1862 president Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, but of course it could not be
enforced until the end of the Civil War in 1865...