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  1. Washington, Booker T(aliaferro) 1856-1915. US
  2. educationist, pioneer in higher education for
  3. black people in the South. He was the founder
  4. and first principal of Tuskegee Institute,
  5. Alabama, in 1881, originally a training
  6. college for blacks, which has become a
  7. respected academic institution. He maintained
  8. that economic independence was the way to
  9. achieve social equality.
  10.