Booker+T.+Washington



Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was an educator even though his family couldn't pay for him to go to school as a young child. After working at a salt furnace and coal mine, he went to work as a janitor at The Hampton Norm and Agricltural institute. After graduating he became a teacher and was faced with a big challenge. He was asked to become the head at a new African American normal school at Tuskegee Institute. When Washington first came there, it was a small campus with poor buildings but when Washington died it became a large campus with more that 1,500 students attending there and an endowment of over 2 million dollars.

Information provided by: America Pathways to Present page 324

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