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Booker T. Washington


Noted educator Booker T. Washington, who spent his childhood years in Malden, was born on April 5, 1856.

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Biography of Booker T. Washington
Extract From Up From Slavery
"Booker T. Washington's West Virginia Boyhood"
"Booker T. Washington's Boyhood Home May Be Rebuilt"
"Booker Taliaferro Washington"
Program For the Dedication of the Booker T. Washington Monument Memorial
"Bolder Booker T. Washington envisioned"
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