The Life of Booker T. Washington
I, Booker Taliaferro Washington, was born into slavery on a small farm in the back country of Virginia. I, like many other Americans of a darker skin were considered to be a piece of property of the whites, who owned plantations in the south. After the emancipation act was passed and I was declared a "free" black man, my mother, brother John and I, traveled many hundred miles from the plantation in Franklin County, Virginia to Malden in West Virginia, there we were joined with my step-father who worked in the salt furnaces and coal-mines. There, while attending the Kanawha Valley school I took the name Washington. Once while working in a coal mine I overheard some exciting and exhilarating news. I overheard two men talk of a school for the colored where poor but worthy students could work for their bed and board while learning a trade. This lead me to have a great ambition, that one day I would attend Hampton. After I was educated at the secondary school, I had dreamed of going to, Hampton Institute, I taught at an upgraded school, and there I was able to experiment some, with the studies of law and ministry. But it was a teaching position I had at Hampton, that helped me assure my future career.
To try to equalize public educational opportunities and to reduce racial violence. Wherever our graduates and ex-students go,! they teach by precept and example the necessary lesson of thrift economy, and property-getting, and friendship between the races. I successfully defeated these critics, over time. " Later in life, I became the leader of the Negro race in America. I persuaded southern white employees and governors that the Institute offered an education that would keep blacks on the farm and in the trades. In 1899 Washington could proudly write: "As we continue placing men and women of intelligence, religion, modesty, conscience, and skill in every community in the South, who will prove by actual results their value to the community, this will constitute the solution for many of the present political and sociological difficulties. In 1900 I also founded the National Negro Business, I was also occupied with being in control of the patronage politics as chief (black) advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard. " The goal of religious life, for me, was to share in the character of God. My speaking tours and private persuasion were all under taken with the sense of equality. "To be Christ-like was not to be unnatural, but by living it one could discover the power and helpfulness practically. Over four hundred students have finished the course of training at this institution and are now scattered throughout the South, doing good work. But to blacks education was the means of escape from the web of sharecropping and debt and the conquest of attainable goals of self-employment, landownership, and small business.
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