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Booker T. Whatley

1915–2005

United States

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Booker T. Whatley (November 5, 1915, in Calhoun County, Alabama – September 3, 2005, in Montgomery, Alabama) was an agriculture professor at Tuskegee University, Alabama, and a pioneer of sustainable agriculture in the post-World War II era. He also aimed to "generate an agrarian black middle class".

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