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For decades, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was the major African-American spokesman in the eyes of America. Born a slave in Virginia, Washington was educated at Hampton Institute, Norfolk, Virginia. He began to work at the Tuskegee Institute in 1881 and built it into a center of learning and industrial and agricultural training. He was funded by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, dined at the White House with Theodore Roosevelt and family, and was the guest of the Queen of England at Windsor Castle. Although Washington was an accommodator, he spoke out against lynchings and worked to make "separate" facilities more "equal." W E B Du Bois Biography [] William Edward Burghardt DuBois was one of this country's most distinguished educators. In 1895 he was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Havard University. In 1897, DuBois took a position with Atlanta University. During his tenure there he conducted extensive studies of the social conditions of blacks in America. At the 1900 Paris World's Fair, DuBois created a full-scale exhibit of African American achievement since the Emancipation Proclamation in industrial work, literature, and journalism. He worked tirelessly to establish fair rights and equal treatment between races. DuBois died on the eve of the historic march on Washington in 1963. Actor and playwright Ossie Davis read an announcement of his death to the 250,000 people gathered the next day at the Washington Monument. Jane Addams Biography [|**http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html**]
 * Jane Addams ** (September 6, 1860-May 21, 1935) won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist.She was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children. In 1881 Jane Addams was graduated from the Rockford Female Seminary, the valedictorian of a class of seventeen, but was granted the bachelor's degree only after the school became accredited the next year as Rockford College for Women. Miss Addams made speeches about the needs of the neighborhood, raised money, convinced young women of well-to-do families to help, took care of children, and nursed the sick. On December 10, 1931, t the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to her in Oslo. She died in 1935 of a heart attack.

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