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About the Author
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born a slave in 1856. After graduating in 1875 from what is today Hampton University, he taught there. In July 1881 he founded the institute that became Tuskegee University. With skill and shrewdness he made himself and his school two of the most well-known institutions in twentieth-century black America.
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), an American writer, was considered the first African-American novelist. Noted for his subtle treatment of racial themes, he was awarded the Spingarn Gold Medal in 1928 for his pioneering work as a literary artist in depicting black Americans. Chesnutt is best known for The Conjure Woman (1898), a collection of dialect stories about slave life.
