Booker T. Washington
1914 - Tuskegee, Alabama
At Tuskegee, a man who built an institution from nothing reflects on the cost of compromise with a nation that never intended to keep its promises.
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At Tuskegee, a man who built an institution from nothing reflects on the cost of compromise with a nation that never intended to keep its promises.
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Physical decline, post-power irrelevance, and appetite refusing retirement.
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