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The_Edwards_Notebook-Booker_T_Washington072325 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: If only black Americans had followed the advice of Booker T. Washington. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ron Edwards on today's face from there War's Notebook.
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  Speaker 1: body and soul. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty six, but chose to work to become
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  Speaker 1: one of the most influential American leaders of the nineteenth
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  Speaker 1: and early twentieth century. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in
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  Speaker 1: eighteen eighty one, which he helped build into a prestigious
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  Speaker 1: school for black students in Alabama. Washington believed invocational education
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  Speaker 1: as a path to economic empowerment and self reliance for
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  Speaker 1: black Americans. He advised US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William
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  Speaker 1: Howard Taft regarding racial matters, making him one of the
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  Speaker 1: first black advisors to a US president since Frederick Douglas.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Washington found of the Neuro Business League to support
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  Speaker 1: black owned businesses. Booker T. Washington encouraged black Americans to
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  Speaker 1: produce for themselves draw their own businesses, rather than hope
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  Speaker 1: and wish for the day white business owners would welcome
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  Speaker 1: doing business with black Americans, or welcoming in them and
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  Speaker 1: as customers. Booker T. Washington believed in uplifting through hard
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  Speaker 1: work and thrift. He died in nineteen fifteen, but his
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  Speaker 1: legacy of education, self reliance in institution building lives on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ron Edwards in