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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
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Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

My Larger Education by Booker T. Washington

Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington by Robert J. Norrell

Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856 - 1901 by Louis Harlan

Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901 - 1915 by Louis Harlan

The Souls of Black Folk by William E. B. Du Bois

My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

More than Anything Else by Marie Bradby

Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century by John Hope Franklin

 

 
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Booker T. Washington
The Great Educator
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War on the Home Front
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Did You Know?
Post WWII (1940s and 1950s) Scranton Lace, located within the Lackawanna Heritage Valley, was the largest producer of lace in the world, producing enough lace to travel across the world 26 times each year!
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