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Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an African-American educator and author. He was the dominant figure in the African-American community in America from 1890 to until his death in 1915. He was born into slavery to an enslaved woman, and a white father. He worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and attended college at Wayland Seminary. In 1881 he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a private, black university. Washington attained national prominence for his Atlanta Address of 1895 a verbal agreement between African-American leaders and Southern white leaders. The agreement was that Southern blacks would work weekly, submit to white political rule, would not agitate for equality or integration while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and Northern whites would fund black educational charities. He was a supporter of education for freedmen in the post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow-era South....