Booker T. Washington-The Great Accommodator Booker T. Washington was born Booker Taliafero on April 5th, 1856. He was a Mulatto slave. He and his mother were slaves to James Burroughs, a farmer in Virginia. When his mother married another slave, Washington Ferguson, Booker took the name Booker T. Washington when he entered school. The Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued on September 22nd, 1862 but was not passed until the Civil War ended in 1865, gave Booker the opportunity …showed first 75 words of 322 total…

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