Which prominent civil rights activist and educator, born into slavery, founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881?

• A Booker T. Washington ✓
• B W.E.B. Du Bois
• C Frederick Douglass
• D George Washington Carver

Booker T. Washington built Tuskegee into a leading institution for Black vocational education and advocated self-help and economic progress as a path to equality.