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Booker T.
Washington
1856 - 1915
WASHINGTON, Booker Taliaferro, educator,
born in Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, 18 April, 1856. He is of
African descent, and early removed to West Virginia. He was graduated at
Hampton institute in 1875, and in the same year entered Wayland seminary,
whence he was called to fill the chair of a teacher at Hampton. There he was
elected by the Alabama state authorities to the presidency of Tuskegee Institute,
which he organized in 1881. Under his management it has grown from an institution with one teacher
and
thirty students to one
with twenty teachers and 300
students. The property consists of 540 acres, a blacksmith's shop, sawmill
carpenter's shop, brickyard, printing-office, and several large
school-buildings, one of which, shown in the vignette, was built by the
students. It is valued at $68,000, and is out of debt. - Edited
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2001 by VirtualologyTM
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2001 by VirtualologyTM
On April 5, 1856, a child who later called
himself Booker T. Washington, was born in slavery on this 207-acre tobacco farm.
The realities of life as a slave in piedmont Virginia, the quest by African
Americans for education and equality, and the post-war struggle over political
participation all shaped the options and choices of Booker T. Washington.
Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881 and later became an
important and controversial leader of his race at a time when increasing racism
in the United States made it necessary for African Americans to adjust
themselves to a new era of legalized oppression. Visitors are invited to step
back in time and experience firsthand the life and landscape of people who lived
in an era when slavery was part of the fabric of American life. - This
Text by National
Park Service.
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