Booker T. Washington
Until the first time of the century African Americans wasn't able to read or write. There are people whose abilities and energy take them far past the limitations life tries to place them. Booker T Washington was one of those people. He rose up from slavery and illiteracy to become an educator and leader of black Americans at the turn of the century. Booker T. Washington was one of privation, poverty, slavery and back-breaking work. Unlike most kids Booker T. Washington had to work as soon as he was big enough. Born April 5, 1856 in Franklin County, the property of James Burroughs of Virginia. His mother was Jane and his father was a white man from a near by farm. His mother later married the slave, Washington Ferguson. When Booker entered school he took the name of his stepfather and became known as Booker T. Washington. He went to school in Franklin County, not as a student, but to carry books for one of James Burrough's daughters. In April 1865 the Emancipation Proclamation was read to slaves in front of the Burroughs home. On September 22, 1862 Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation, but it could not be enforced until the end of the Civil War in 1865. Booker's family soon left to join his step
This enabled students to become involved in the building of a new school. Armstrong believed that it was important that the freed slaves received a practical education. Washington trade was to be a janitor. Washington was a man of great ambitious and a man whom was eager to make it in life. Over 8,000 people attended his funeral held in the Tuskegee Institute Chapel. By 1888 the school owned 540 acres of land and had over 400 students. He believed that blacks should not push to attain equal civil and political rights with whites. Suffering from arteriosclerosis he was warned that he did not have long to live. The Institution was not a place for slacking. That it was best to concentrate on improving their economic skills and the quality of their character. The school was originally a shanty building owned by the local church. The Tuskegee Negro Normal Institute was opened on July 4, 1888.
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