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Description: Creator of the Tuskegee University, read about the life of Booker T. Washington and his work "Up From Slavery".
Booker T. Washington - Free Online Library Booker Taliaferro Washington was born as a slave in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia. He was the son of a cook, Jane, and a white man. After the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, Washington and his family had to wait until it was finally enforced in 1865. They then moved to Malden, West Virginia, where Washington worked packing salt. At the age of sixteen, Washington left home to attend Hampton Institute in Virginia. He went to night school and worked as a janitor to support himself. He then attended Wayland Seminary. After considering both law and theology as careers, he instead took a teaching position at Hampton. In 1881, when he was twenty-five years old, he moved to Tuskegee, Alabama. There he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which opened on July 4th, 1881 in a small church house with only thirty students. Washington spent the rest of life improving the school.
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| Page title: | Booker T. Washington - Free Online Library |
| Keywords: | Booker T. Washington,read,books,online,library,free,electronic,ebooks,readable,etexts,classic,literature,english,reader,reading |
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