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If only black Americans had followed the advice of Booker T. Washington. Hello, I'm Ron Edwards on today's face from there War's Notebook. Brought to you by Root Brands, premium products for your body and soul. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in eighteen fifty six, but chose to work to become one of the most influential American leaders of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in eighteen eighty one, which he helped build into a prestigious school for black students in Alabama. Washington believed invocational education as a path to economic empowerment and self reliance for black Americans. He advised US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft regarding racial matters, making him one of the first black advisors to a US president since Frederick Douglas. Mister Washington found of the Neuro Business League to support black owned businesses. Booker T. Washington encouraged black Americans to produce for themselves draw their own businesses, rather than hope and wish for the day white business owners would welcome doing business with black Americans, or welcoming in them and as customers. Booker T. Washington believed in uplifting through hard work and thrift. He died in nineteen fifteen, but his legacy of education, self reliance in institution building lives on. I'm Ron Edwards in