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booker t. washington black leadership in the age of jim crow
from the time of his famous atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915 booker t. washington was the preeminent african american educator and race leader . but to historians and biographers of the last hundred years washington has often been described as an enigma a man who rose to prominence because he offered a compromise with the white south he was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement . thus one historian called washingtons time the nadir of negro life in america .