Booker T Washington was considered a popular spokesperson of African-American citizens.
Booker T Washington became the leader of black education, and he had a strong influence as the racial representative of national politics. He learned reading and writing in the late 1860s in the primary school Freedmen's Bureau oversaw and in 1872 he became a Hampton Institute student, and he excelled. He was seen as the African -American popular spokesman. He was a progressive leader and worked to gain voting rights for not only White Americans but Black Americans too. He represented the last generation of black leaders who were born in slavery. He was perceived as a supporter of educating the freedmen and their descendants in post-reconstruction.
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