Booker Taliaferro Washington was born to a slave on April 5, 1856 in Franklin, County Virginia. In 1872, Booker left home and walked 500 miles to Hampton Agricultural Institute, he took a job as a janitor to pay for schooling. In 1881, the Alabama legislature approved a “colored school”, which was the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute; Washington was recommended to run the school. Washington publicly said that African Americans should accept social segregation, as long as whites allowed them educational opportunity and justice in the courts. Many African-Americans looked at Washington as a hero, but some saw him as a traitor. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was born on February 23, 1868 in Massachusetts. Du Bois grew up in a European-
