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Booker T. Washington
1856 – 1915 · United States
“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings...”
Proverbs 22:29 (KJV)
In the Life of the Saints
Born enslaved in Virginia, Washington worked his way through school to found the Tuskegee Institute, training generations of Black Americans in practical skills and Christian character. A licensed lay preacher himself, he framed education and moral discipline as inseparable, rooted in his own deep religious conviction.
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