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In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as Tuskegee University), which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits.

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Answer: He founded a leading college for African Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama

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By the 1890s Booker T. Washington, born in Virginia of a slave mother and a white father, had become the foremost black educator in the nation. He argued that blacks should not focus on fighting racial segregation. Instead, they should first establish an economic base for their advancement before striving for social equality and political rights.

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