Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute
Primary Sources of the Civil Rights Movement
Reading Level: 6
Interest Level: 6-8
Booker T. Washington was an educated black man who was very influential in the transition in the United States from the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery to the election of President Barack Obama. He believed education was key in helping lift African Americans out of poverty and built the Tuskegee Institute to provide that education.
