Who is Booker Taliaferro Washington? (original) (raw)

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I. (noun)

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Meaning:

United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)play

Synonyms:

Booker T. Washington; Booker Taliaferro Washington; Washington

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

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