Booker T. Washington in US Federal Census Records
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1880
-- Living in Chesapeake, Virginia--enumerated as a school teacher.
1900
-- While at Tuskegee Institute
1910
-- While at Tuskegee Institute
From the Library of Congress Web site:
"For decades, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was the major
African-American spokesman in the eyes of white America. Born a slave
in Virginia, Washington was educated at Hampton Institute, Norfolk,
Virginia. He began to work at the Tuskegee Institute in 1881 and built
it into a center of learning and industrial and agricultural training."
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/bookert.html
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