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Remembering Booker T. Washington: Proponent of Black-Owned Business

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Washington was born into slavery in Virginia in 1856. Following emancipation 9 years later, Washington’s mother moved with him to West Virginia to join her husband. Lacking a school for Black students, the town arranged for an educated Black man from Ohio to board with families one day at a time and teach the children.