jan 1, 1881 - 1881: Booker T. Washington forms Tuskegee institute

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Educated man that formed the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. He promoted the idea of not bothering the whites about discrimination and unequal rights - the concept of acquiesce - but instead to focus on the economic base for their advancement, improving in agriculture, mechanics, commerce, domestic service, etc. so that the whites would eventually need them.

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