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Booker T. Washington was a former slave who faced obstacles of poverty and racism as he tried to obtain an education. His inspiring book, 'Up From Slavery,' chronicles his quest for knowledge, as well as the building of the school that would become the Tuskegee Institute.

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Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in 1856 into slavery. Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, Washington worked his way into a position of great influence, encouraging black progress in education and fighting the then-enforced Jim Crow laws of segregation.

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How did he overcome his obstacles?

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