Booker T. Washington Bio 

 One of the well known man in history is Booker T. Washington. He was born in 1886 in a part of Virginia, now known as West Virginia today. As he got older he worked in the salt furnaces and coalmines. He enroll himself at the Hampton Institute.

 Booker wrote a book but many African Americans in the north didn't agreed with his theory, that they should focus on the economics of the country but they also want to focus on the country politics. Soon after he recited a speech called "The Atlanta Address". In his speech he talks about how blacks and whites are alike and how they can make this country a better place if they worked together. 

 Booker T. Washington went down in history as the grates African American of his time