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=Booker T. Washington=
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Booker T. Washington represented the black community in politics from 1890 to 1915. He was also an educator, author, and orator. Washington was able to help African Americans by not only representing them well in politics, but he was also able to raise education funds from both blacks and whites. He used these funds to build schools rural towns in the South so more blacks could have the opportunity to get an educations. Booker T. Washington was also successful because he accepted the reality of the Jim Crow Laws and cooperated with whites, rather than fighting and risking outbreaks of violence. He believed that in the long run this peacefull aproach would in the long run end racism.

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