BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

By. Eddie Steven Pum

When was Booker T. When was Booker T. W. born?W. born?

Booker T. Washington was born April 5, 1856, as a slave on a farm in Virginia backcountry .

Where did Booker T. W. get his Where did Booker T. W. get his

education and what did he major education and what did he major

in in

He went to Hampton Institute, where he spent time teaching an upgrade school. He majored in the study of law and the ministry. But this was not his true calling. He wanted to teach and mold young and old minds.

Why was Booker T. W. invited to Why was Booker T. W. invited to

Tuskegee, Alabama? And what was Tuskegee, Alabama? And what was

his purpose there?his purpose there?

Booker T. Washington was invited to Tuskegee, by local white people to come and create a all black school.

When he arrived to Tuskegge When he arrived to Tuskegge

what was he expecting ?what was he expecting ?

He was expecting to find a school already built with the necessities to start teaching. The school was near a church the building was torn down and shanty the roof was so leaky that students and Booker had to cover their heads with umbrellas when it rained.

What was Bookers main reason What was Bookers main reason

for starting the school and for starting the school and

teachingteaching

He wanted to give black kids the power to learn and know what their doing. Booker envisioned a school that would teach everything that has to be taught from cooking to biology. His main goal was to teach other teachers to to work in rural areas, teaching children moral values.

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“ If Booker had what young fellows now call a bug it was keeping clean. Next to a liar, he hated a dirty man or women than anything else in the world”

Booker did not like people dirty because when he was young he didn’t have nothing so he does not remind himself of the bad times of disgust.

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My plan was for them to see not only the utility of labor but its beauty and dignity. They would be taught how to lift labor up from drudgery and toil and would learn to love work for its own sake…”

He wanted them to understand the working life and to learn from its experience to love what you do.

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Booker T. W. was a man in slavery who up rose to freedom and gain the advantage by going to school he is a man of many talents. He had accomplished his goal in life giving the opportunity to learn.

Booker T. W. did all he could all the way up to his death November 14, 1915

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Booker gave the power and the opportunity of learning and knowledge to African Americans, with out him who knows when blacks would learn about the world around them. He was an innovator to his culture.

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