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Booker T. Washington

High School Days

Take the journey to Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, where MLK attended for two years. Booker T. Washington was a famous educator in the black community who started the Tuskegee Institute and wrote “Up from Slavery” in 1901.

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” 

Speech in St. Louis, March 22, 1964

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